The second world wars : how the first global conflict was fought and won
by Hanson, Victor Davis (Author)
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Table of Contents:
- Part I. Ideas
- The war in a classical context
- Grievances, agendas, and methods
- Old, new, and strange alliances
- Part II. Air
- The air power revolution
- From Poland to the Pacific
- New terrors from above
- Part III. Water
- Ships and strategies
- From the Atlantic to the Mediterranean
- A vast ocean
- Part IV. Earth
- The primacy of infantry
- Soldiers and armies
- The western and eastern wars for the continent
- Armies abroad
- Sieges
- Part V. Fire
- Tanks and artillery
- People
- Supreme command
- The warlords
- The workers
- The dead
- Part VII. Ends
- Winners, losers, neither, and both.