Germany and the Second World War Volume VII: The Strategic Air War in Europe and the War in the West and East Asia, 1943-1944/5

Horst Boog, Research Institute of Military History, Potsdam,Gerhard Krebs, Research Institute of Military History, Potsdam,Detlef Vogel, Research Institute of Military History, Potsdam

Project co-ordinated by the Militargeschichtliches Forschungsamt (Research Institute for Military History), Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany

Introduction, Hans Umbreit
Part I: The Strategic Air War in Europe and Air Defence of the Reich 1943-1944 Horst Boog
1. The Allied Combined Bomber Offensive against Germany (Pointblank) from Early 1943 to July 1944
2. Defending German Skies, Part of the Overall Air-War Problem: From Early 1943 to the Invasion in 1944
3. Attack the Best Form of Defence? Germany Reacts in Kind to the Allied Bomber Offensive
Part II: German and Allied Conduct of the War in the West Detlef Vogel
1. The German in the Occupied Territories of Western and Northern Europe up to Mid-1943
2. The Allies in the Western Theatre up to Mid-1943
3. The Germans Await an Allied Invasion
4. Allied Plans and Preparations for Operation Overlord July 1943 to the Invasion
5. Operation Overlord
6. The Landing in the South of France
7. The Battles on the Western Front from September 1944 to January 1945
Part III: The War in the Pacific 1943-1945 Gerhard Krebs
1. Strategy and Policy after the Reversal of Fortunes Early in 1943
2. The Major American Offensives of 1944 and their Repercussions for Japan
3. The Last Lap
4. Looking to the Future: The End of the Pacific War, and the Post-War Order in Asia
Bibliography of Persons
Index