This book provides a comprehensive history of the Second World War like no other. It was B.H. Liddell Hart’s last work as well as his magnum opus, embodying the fruits of twenty years of research and a lifetime of thinking on war. It abounds with controversial judgments, including provocative assertions about the true causes behind France’s defeat in 1940, Hitler’s failed invasion of Russia, and Japan’s strunning victory at Pearl Harbor: the effectiveness ...
