Weltenbrand: Der Zweite Weltkrieg 1939-1945: Hintergründe und Verlauf - Gebundenes Buch

Who wants to write a story of the Second World War, must not begin in 1939. Clairvoyant observers predicted as early as 1919 that the Treaty of Versailles, which concluded the First World War, already laid the seeds for the next war in Europe. Committed to a holistic approach, the presentation of the well-known historian Walter Post logically 1918/19. He describes the effect of the defeat on Europe, the strengthening of the NS movement, the consolidation of the Bolshevik system under Josef Stalin, the New Deal Roosevelt and Japan's expansionist policies. Post describes in detail the political prewar crisis: the Anschluss of Austria, the return of the Sudetenland, the occupation of Prague, the struggle for a German-Polish settlement, a non-aggression pact with Russia. He analyzes in detail the political reasons for the individual campaigns, explains the tactics and strategy of the respective war opponents and does not forget the "big politics": the war expansion strategy of England, the policy of the USA, the military plans of Moscow to attack Western Europe, Berlin's plans to create a "New Europe". All major theaters of war are treated, important battles in Europe, Africa and Asia traced. The reader gets hereby a work in the hand, which describes not only origin and course of battles, but likewise the decision-making on political level.

480 pages
Language: German