Introduction
Part I: Political and Military Developments in the Mediterranean
Area, 1939-1940Gerhard Schreiber:
I: Mussolini's 'Non-Belligerence'
II: Italy's Entry Into the War
III: The Strategy Dilemma of the Summer and Autumn of 1940: An
Alternative or Interim Strategy
IV: Ideas of German Ruling Circles Concerning a Colonial Empire
Part II: Germany, Italy, and South-East Europe: From Political and
Economic Hegemony to Military AggressionGerhard Schreiber:
I: Unequal Heirs of the First World War
II: German and Italian Policy Towards the States of South-East
Europe
III: Mussolini's Invasion of Greece: The Beginning of the End of
Italy's Great-Power Status
Part III: German Intervention in the BalkansDetlef Vogel:
I: Germany's Balkan Policy in the Autumn of 1940 and the Spring of
1941
II: From the Coup in Yugoslavia to the Outbreak of War on 6 April
1941
III: The German Attack on Yugoslavia and Greece
IV: The Capture of Crete
Part IV: Politics and Warfare in 1941Gerhard Schreiber:
I: The Anglo-American Association and its Consequences for British
Strategy
II: Hitler's Strategic Deliberations in Connection with the Attack
on the Soviet Union
Part V: The Italo-German Conduct of the War in the Mediterranean
and North AfricaBernd Stegemann:
I: The British Take the Offensive in North and East Africa
II: German Intervention and its Effects on the Naval and Air War in
the Mediterranean
III: The Reconquest of Cyrenaica and the Failure of the Attacks on
Tobruk
IV: The Fighting on the Sollum Front
V: The Naval and Air War in the Mediterranean and Supplies for the
North African Theatre
VI: Operation Crusader
Conclusion
Project co-ordinated by the Militärgeschichtliches
Forschungsamt
; Translated from the German by Dean S. McMurray, and Ewald
Osers
; Translation Editor: P. S. Falla
`These two superb volumes from Oxford University Press ... The
Companion is quite an extraordinary achievement ... it provides an
indispensable guide ... But the range and intellectual energy of
the latter will make it an invaluable work of reference for
undergraduate and researchers. Together, these two books provide as
valuable a commemoration of the war as any.'
Mark Mazower, History Today
`By bringing out an English translation, OUP have put all scholars
of the war in their debt. If any volume can lay claim to being
definitive, this is surely it. The authors have read almost
unbelievably widely in the primary and secondary sources ... it
will endure ... an indispensable guide to the latest research on
most key aspects of the war ... the range and intellectual energy
... will make it an invaluable work of reference for undergraduate
and
researchers ... as valuable a commemoration of the war as any.'
Mark Mazower, History Today
Ask a Question About this Product More... |