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  • Published: 1 March 2002
  • ISBN: 9780609808443
  • Imprint: Crown
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 368
  • RRP: $40.00
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How Hitler Could Have Won World War II

The Fatal Errors That Led to Nazi Defeat



From an acclaimed military historian, a fascinating account of just how close the Allies were to losing World War II.

Most of us rally around the glory of the Allies' victory over the Nazis in World War II. The story is often told of how the good fight was won by an astonishing array of manpower and stunning tactics. However, what is often overlooked is how the intersection between Adolf Hitler's influential personality and his military strategy was critical in causing Germany to lose the war.

With an acute eye for detail and his use of clear prose, Bevin Alexander goes beyond counterfactual "What if?" history and explores for the first time just how close the Allies were to losing the war. Using beautifully detailed, newly designed maps, How Hitler Could Have Won World War II exquisitely illustrates the important battles and how certain key movements and mistakes by Germany were crucial in determining the war's outcome. Alexander's harrowing study shows how only minor tactical changes in Hitler's military approach could have changed the world we live in today. 

Alexander probes deeply into the crucial intersection between Hitler's psyche and military strategy and how his paranoia fatally overwhelmed his acute political shrewdness to answer the most terrifying question: Just how close were the Nazis to victory?

  • Published: 1 March 2002
  • ISBN: 9780609808443
  • Imprint: Crown
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 368
  • RRP: $40.00
Categories:

About the author

Bevin Alexander

Bevin Alexander is the author of eight books of military history, including How Wars Are WonHow Hitler Could Have Won World War II, and Lost Victories, which was named by the Civil War Book Review as one of the seventeen books that have most transformed Civil War scholarship. He was an adviser to the Rand Corporation for a recent study on future warfare and a participant in a recent war game simulation run by the Training and Doctrine Command of the U.S. Army. His battle studies of the Korean War, written during his decorated service as a combat historian, are stored in the National Archives in Washington, D.C. He lives in Bremo Bluff, Virginia.

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