Why Germany Nearly Won: A New History of the Second World War in Europe

Why Germany Nearly Won challenges today's conventional wisdom, which explains Germany's Second World War defeat as inevitable primarily for reasons of Allied economic or military brute force created when Germany attacked the Soviet Union. Taking an entirely new perspective on explaining the Second World War in Europe, and its outcome, at its core Why Germany Nearly Won offers the reader three interrelated, unique, and potentially ground-breaking arguments. First, qualitative differences between the combatants proved more important in determining the war's outcome than have the quantitative brute force measures so commonly discussed in the past. Second, attacking the Soviet Union represented Germany's best opportunity to win a war that according to commonly cited measures of military potential, should have been completely out of Germany's reach. Third, for reasons frequently overlooked and misunderstood Germany came far closer to winning the war than has previously been recognized.

Author: Steven D. Mercatante
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 07/10/2014
Pages: 426
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.28lbs
Size: 9.14h x 6.01w x 1.01d
ISBN13: 9781442236868
ISBN10: 1442236868
BISAC Categories:
- History | Wars & Conflicts | World War II | General
- History | Europe | Germany
- History | United States | 20th Century

About the Author
Steven D. Mercatante is the founder and editor-in-chief of the Globe at War, a website that has established the author as a respected authority on World War II. Mercatante received his JD from Michigan State University College of Law, graduating with a concentration in international law.