256 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : 22 cm

"Hitler. Was he the 'greatest strategic genius of all time, ' as Nazi propaganda had it? Or was he a facile amateur in military affairs ... as some of the German General Staff -- after the war had been lost -- sought to demonstrate? There are those who claim that, if Hitler had not interfered so continually and disastrously, the General Staff would have won World War II. About Hitler the politician there is general agreement, but what about Hitler the military commander ... John Strawson demonstrates how Hitler's insatiable preoccupation with war and conquest was translated into reality"--Jacket

Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-248) and index

A jumped-up corporal -- Revolutionary Wehrmacht -- Bloodless victories -- Blitzkrieg -- Sichelschnitt--cut of the sickle -- Dissipating the Wehrmacht -- Barbarossa--the irretrievable blunder -- The tide turns -- Violation of a fortress -- The Atlantic wall crumbles -- The gambler's final throw -- 'The greatest strategic genius of all time?'

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