05530cam a2200685 a 4500 on1162006370 OSt 20240919172939.0 m o d cr ||||||||||| 991221s2000 mauab ob 001 0 eng d 99086624 0674041305 9780674041301 067400163X 9780674001633 0674006801 9780674006805 (OCoLC)1162006370 (OCoLC)1408387526 VLY eng VLY OCLCO OCLCF SFB OCLCO OCLCQ OCLCE OCLCO OCLCL OCLCQ dlr D767.98 .M96 Murray, Williamson. A war to be won [electronic resource] : fighting the Second World War / Williamson Murray, Allan R. Millett. Cambridge, MA : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2000. 1 online resource (736 p.) text txt computer c online resource cr Description based upon print version of record. Includes bibliographical references (p. 613-637) and index. Frontmatter -- PREFACE -- CONTENTS -- MAPS -- 1 Origins of a Catastrophe -- 2 The Revolution in Military Operations, 1919-1939 -- 3 German Designs, 1939-1940 -- 4 Germany Triumphant, 1940 -- 5 Diversions in the Mediterranean and Balkans, 1940-1941 -- 6 Barbarossa, 1941 -- 7 The Origins of the Asia-Pacific War, 1919-1941 -- 8 The Japanese War of Conquest, 1941-1942 -- 9 The Asia-Pacific War, 1942-1944 -- 10 The Battle of the Atlantic, 1939-1943 -- 11 Year of Decision for Germany, 1942 -- 12 The Combined Bomber Offensive, 1941-1945 -- 13 The Destruction of Japanese Naval Power, 1943-1944 -- 14 The Killing Time, 1943-1944 -- 15 The Invasion of France, 1944 -- 16 The End in Europe, 1944-1945 -- 17 The Destruction of the Japanese Empire, 1944-1945 -- 18 The End of the Asia-Pacific War, 1945 -- 19 Peoples at War, 1937-1945 -- 20 The Aftermath of War -- Epilogue: In Retrospect -- Appendixes: -- Notes -- Suggested Reading -- Acknowledgments -- Illustration Credits -- Index Use copy Restrictions unspecified star MiAaHDL George E. Bishop Memorial. In the course of the twentieth century, no war looms as profoundly transformative or as destructive as World War II. Its global scope and human toll reveal the true face of modern, industrialized warfare. Now, for the first time, we have a comprehensive, single-volume account of how and why this global conflict evolved as it did. A War To Be Won is a unique and powerful operational history of the Second World War that tells the full story of battle on land, on sea, and in the air. Williamson Murray and Allan R. Millett analyze the operations and tactics that defined the conduct of the war in both the European and Pacific Theaters. Moving between the war room and the battlefield, we see how strategies were crafted and revised, and how the multitudes of combat troops struggled to discharge their orders. The authors present incisive portraits of the military leaders, on both sides of the struggle, demonstrating the ambiguities they faced, the opportunities they took, and those they missed. Throughout, we see the relationship between the actual operations of the war and their political and moral implications. A War To Be Won is the culmination of decades of research by two of America's premier military historians. It avoids a celebratory view of the war but preserves a profound respect for the problems the Allies faced and overcame as well as a realistic assessment of the Axis accomplishments and failures. It is the essential military history of World War II-from the Sino-Japanese War in 1937 to the surrender of Japan in 1945-for students, scholars, and general readers alike. Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified]: HathiTrust Digital Library. 2023. MiAaHDL Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English. digitized 2023. HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL fast https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39Qhp4vBbhpRH9XvjbDFXtxhb 1900-1999 fast World War, 1939-1945. History, Modern 20th century. Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945. Histoire 20e si�ecle. 15.50 general world history; history of great parts of the world, peoples, civilizations: general. (NL-LeOCL)077599470 bcl History, Modern fast Tweede Wereldoorlog. gtt Oorlogvoering. gtt Segunda guerra mundial (1939-1945) (hist�oria) larpcal World War, 1939-1945. nli Millett, Allan Reed. has work: A war to be won (Text) https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCFXJrYWWMDHpy3fY4KxHcq https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/ontology/hasWork 0-674-00163-X 0-674-00680-1 HathiTrust Digital Library http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/43109827.html BATCHLOAD lcc BK 0 NO HOLDINGS IN GHUCC - 29 OTHER HOLDINGS 1252 1252