The Struggle For Europe
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Poor
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Condition remarks: Loose binding - pages still intact
In the shadow of the greatest military conflict the modern world has ever witnessed, The Struggle for Europe presents a sweeping, meticulously researched account of the Allied campaign to liberate Western Europe from Nazi Germany during the Second World War. Chester Wilmot chronicles the monumental clash of strategies, personalities, and armies — from the beaches of Normandy in June 1944 through to the final collapse of the Third Reich — arguing with piercing clarity that the Western Allies, despite their military triumph, ultimately conceded the political fruits of victory to the Soviet Union. Wilmot writes with the authority of a frontline war correspondent who witnessed events firsthand, lending his narrative an urgency and authenticity that distinguishes it from purely academic treatments of the conflict. He presents a damning reassessment of Allied grand strategy, particularly the tensions between Eisenhower and Montgomery, and the critical decisions that allowed Soviet power to dominate Central and Eastern Europe in the post-war settlement. A landmark work of military history that continues to provoke debate among historians, The Struggle for Europe remains essential reading for anyone seeking to understand not just how the war was won, but why the peace was so swiftly, and so tragically, lost.
Author: Chester Wilmot
Format: Hardback
Published: 1955, Collins, St James's Place, London
Genre: WW2
Condition remarks:
Book: Poor
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Condition remarks: Loose binding - pages still intact
In the shadow of the greatest military conflict the modern world has ever witnessed, The Struggle for Europe presents a sweeping, meticulously researched account of the Allied campaign to liberate Western Europe from Nazi Germany during the Second World War. Chester Wilmot chronicles the monumental clash of strategies, personalities, and armies — from the beaches of Normandy in June 1944 through to the final collapse of the Third Reich — arguing with piercing clarity that the Western Allies, despite their military triumph, ultimately conceded the political fruits of victory to the Soviet Union. Wilmot writes with the authority of a frontline war correspondent who witnessed events firsthand, lending his narrative an urgency and authenticity that distinguishes it from purely academic treatments of the conflict. He presents a damning reassessment of Allied grand strategy, particularly the tensions between Eisenhower and Montgomery, and the critical decisions that allowed Soviet power to dominate Central and Eastern Europe in the post-war settlement. A landmark work of military history that continues to provoke debate among historians, The Struggle for Europe remains essential reading for anyone seeking to understand not just how the war was won, but why the peace was so swiftly, and so tragically, lost.