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Defeat In The West

CONTENTS PAGE Introduction v List of Illustrations X Author's Preface XII BOOK ONE THE ROAD TO DEFEAT PART I THE CAUSES CHAPTER I. Men Make Wars 1 II. Hitler 3 III. Discipline 8 IV. Ignorance 13 PART II THE BEGINNINGS V. The Wehrmacht is Reborn 21 VI. Hitler versus the German General Staff 25 VII. The Phoney War 33 VIII. Victory — and Defeat 39 PART III THE MISTAKES IX. The Early Mistakes — Gibraltar and Crete 54 X. The Greatest Mistake — Russia 60 XI. The Decisive Mistake — United States 74 XII. The Final Mistake — El Alamein 78 BOOK TWO DEFEAT IN THE WEST PART IV THE INVASION XIII. The Atlantic Wall and the Men Behind It 88 XIV. Watching and Waiting 95 XV. The First Days 100 XVI. The Battle of the Bridgehead 109 XVII. The German Soldier Still Hopes 116 PART V THE DECLINE XVIII. July Twentieth 122 XIX. Defeat in Normandy 136 XX. Mortain 145 XXI. The Hell of Falaise 148 XXII. Paris and the Seine 162 XXIII. The Retreat 177 XXIV. The Fortresses 187 XXV. Manning the Siegfried Line 202 PART VI THE COUNTERBLOW XXVI. Offensive in the Ardennes 222 XXVII. The Parachutists and the Saboteurs 235 XXVIII. Elation and Despair 248 XXIX. The Thunder of Collapse 253 PART VII THE END XXX. Defeat We

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