Lucky Hitler's Big Mistakes: Hitler's Big Mistakes 9781399074377, 1399074377

Adolf Hitler’s Great War military experiences in no way qualified him for supreme command. Yet by July 1940, under his p

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Table of contents :
Cover
Book Title
Copyright
Contents
About the Author
Credits / Acknowledgments
Prologue
Part One - Lucky Hitler
Chapter 1 - The First World War 1914–1918
Chapter 2 - The Munich Beer Hall Putsch 1923
Chapter 3 - The Wall Street Crash – 1929
Chapter 4 - The Reichstag Fire – 1933
Chapter 5 - Röhm and the Night of the Long Knives 1934
Chapter 6 - The Sex Scandals 1926–38
Chapter 7 - Appeasement – Good Luck or Negotiating Genius? 1933–39
Chapter 8 - Hitler’s Henchmen – Working Towards the Führer
Chapter 9 - The Manstein Plan 1940
Chapter 10 - Barbarossa – the End of the Beginning 1941
Chapter 11 - Assassination – Luck of the Devil
Part Two - Hitler’s Big Mistakes
Chapter 12 - Ideological Obsessions
Chapter 13 - Failure to Invade Britain after Dunkirk 1940
Chapter 14 - Gibraltar, North Africa and the Mediterranean 1940
Chapter 15 - U-Boats 1939–1943
Chapter 16 - Barbarossa to Bagration – War on Two Fronts 1943
Chapter 17 - Declared War on the USA – December 1941
Chapter 18 - Taking over as Commander in Chief – December 1941
Chapter 19 - Festungen – Fortified Localities – Stand or Die
Chapter 20 - Operation Bodyguard 1944
Chapter 21 - Wonder Weapons – V1 to Nuclear Bomb
Epilogue
What Happened to Each Character
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
Back cover

Lucky Hitler's Big Mistakes: Hitler's Big Mistakes
9781399074377, 1399074377