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History of the Second World War, B. H. Liddell Hart's last work as well as his magnum opus, embodies the fruits of twenty years of research and a lifetime of thinking on war. It abounds with controversial judgments, including provocative assertions about the true causes behind France's defeat in 1940, Hitler's failed invasion of Russia, and Japan's stunning victory at Pearl Harbor; the effectiveness of the Allies' strategic bombing of Germany; the questionable necessity of detonating atom bombs over Hiroshima and Nagasaki; and much more. This monumental history is both a crowning achievement and a final summation by one of the greatest military thinkers of the twentieth century.
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Sir Basil Liddell Hart (1895-1970) was the greatest military thinker of the twentieth century, whose ideas revolutionized the art of war. A student at Cambridge University at the outbreak of World War I, he joined the army and rose to the rank of captain. He retired from the army in 1927 to devote his time to writing. He was military correspondent for the Daily Telegraph and adviser on defense to The London Times, and military editor of the Encyclopedia Britannica. He lectured at Cambridge and served as personal adviser to War Minister Leslie Hore-Belisha in the reorganization of the British Army in the run-up to World War II. He was the author of more than thirty books and had an enormous influence on military thinking about mechanized warfare.
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A remarkable tour de force by one of the greatest military thinkers of the century. --Life Magazine.On the level of strictly operational military history, the best book about [WWII] we are ever likely to see. --The London Times
On the level of strictly operational military history, the best book about [WWII] we are ever likely to see. --The London Times
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- PublisherBookthrift Co
- Publication date1971
- ISBN 10 0399104143
- ISBN 13 9780399104145
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages766
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