Why Germany nearly won
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The book begins by examining methods by which German economy and military prepared for war, German military establishment's formidable strengths, and its weaknesses. The author then takes a new perspective on explaining the Second World War in Europe. He demonstrates how Germany, through its invasion of the Soviet Union, came within a whisker of cementing a European-based empire that would have allowed the Third Reich to challenge the Anglo-American alliance for global hegemony. The last section explores final year of the war and addresses how Germany was able to hang on against the world's most powerful nations working in concert to engineer its defeat. The author demonstrates how closely fought the war actually was and demolishes the long-standing myth that Germany's purportedly professional war machine would have won the war but for Hitler's incompetent leadership.
