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Hitler's fatal miscalculation : why Germany declared war on the United States /

In the last days of November 1941, Nazi Germany's strategic situation was ambiguous. Her armies were in possession of most of continental Europe and fighting deep inside the USSR, but the momentum of the Wehrmacht's war machine appeared to be spending itself. In relation to the numbers of...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Schmider, Klaus (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2021.
Series:Cambridge military histories.
Subjects:
Hitler, Adolf, > 1889-1945.
Germany > Foreign relations > United States.
United States > Foreign relations > Germany.
World War, 1939-1945 > Causes.
World War, 1939-1945 > Germany.
World War, 1939-1945 > United States.
Table of Contents:
  • Hitler's pre-war assessment of the United States and Japan
  • Hitler's physical health in autumn 1941
  • "All measures short of war": the German assessment of American strategy, 1940/41
  • Forging an unlikely alliance: Germany and Japan, 1933-1941
  • Facing the same dilemma: the US and German quest for rubber
  • The crisis of the German war economy, 1940/41
  • The end of Blitzkrieg? Barbarossa and the impact of Lend-Lease
  • The Battle of the Atlantic
  • The Luftwaffe on the eve of global war
  • The Holocaust.