Did Mussolini invade Greece against Hitler's wishes? Were Fuhrer's plans for that country purely defensive? How did the German campaign in the Balkans affect their attack on Soviet Russia? These are a few of the questions to which Dr van Crevland provides provocative answers. Using Hitler's attitude to Greece and Yugoslavia as a vital clue, this book puts forward a novel interpretation of Germany's overall strategy in the years 1940-1. Rejecting 'traditional views', the author suggests that Hitler was in fact greatly ...
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Did Mussolini invade Greece against Hitler's wishes? Were Fuhrer's plans for that country purely defensive? How did the German campaign in the Balkans affect their attack on Soviet Russia? These are a few of the questions to which Dr van Crevland provides provocative answers. Using Hitler's attitude to Greece and Yugoslavia as a vital clue, this book puts forward a novel interpretation of Germany's overall strategy in the years 1940-1. Rejecting 'traditional views', the author suggests that Hitler was in fact greatly interested in the Mediterranean and the possibilities it offered for conducting 'peripheral' warfare against Great Britain, that he authorized, or at least tolerated in silence, Mussolini's attack on Greece; that, after about 30 November 1940, he repeatedly made peaceful overtures to Greece but that these were rejected by Athens because of British Pressure; that Rumanians, Bulgarians and Yugoslavs put serious obstacles in the way of the planned German invasion of Greece; that military planning for that campaign was vague about its objectives until the last moment; that the Yugoslav coup d'�tat of 27 March 1941 and the subsequent German invasion did not cause any delay to the German attack on the USSR.
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Book. Octavo, viii, 248 pages. In Good condition with a Poor dust jacket. Spine pictorial red and gray with off-white and black lettering. Dust jacket shows moderate plus wear including damp staining/soiling, several instances of chips to the edges and some age toning. Price clipped front flap. Staining prominent interiorly. Boards show extremely mild wear including slight wear to the edges. Text block has slight age toning to the edges. Some notations and highlights interiorly. Slight cracking to the gutter to pages eighty four to eighty five and pages one hundred eighty to one hundred eighty one. Illustrated. First edition. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column K, ND-K. 1380863. FP New Rockville Stock.
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