Blitzkrieg in the West and Total War in the East

• Soviet Invasion of Finland

• “mission creep”

• Sweden

• Norway & Denmark,  April 9, 1940

• Vidkun Quisling

• Winston Churchill

• May 10, 1940

• bombing of Rotterdam

• Eben Emael Fortress

• hollow charge

• glider

   

• Battle of Gembloux

• Paul Reynaud

• British Expeditionary Force (BEF)

• The myth of the Belgian surrender

• Dunkirk

• Vichy France

• Marshall Petain

• Prime Minister Pierre Laval

• Giulio Douhet –

  Il dominio dell’aria

• Tactical Bomber

• Strategic Bomber

• Flying Fortress B-17

   

• Battle of Britain

• Schweinfurt Ball Bearing Works Bombing

• Operation Barbarossa  June 22, 1941

• General Mud

• General Winter

• Mussolini

• Afrika Korps

• Yugoslavia – Greece  April 1941

• Ustashi

• Croatia

• Ante Pavalic

• Pearl Harbor

• German Sixth Army

• Stalingrad  Nov 1942-January 1943

• Field Marshal Friedrich Paulus

• totalkrieg

• Sicily

• Italy

• Salo

• Operation Citadel (Battle of Kursk)  July 1943

• Mark V Panther

• June 6, 1944

• Battle of the Bulge December 1944

• July 20, 1944 Plot

• November 8, 1939 Attempt

RECOMMENDED READINGS and RESOURCES

John Mosier, The Blitzkrieg Myth, New York:  Perennial, 2003.

Peter Hoffmann, Hitler’s Personal Security:  Protecting the Fuhrer, 1921-1945, New York:  Da Capo Press,  2000.  (2nd Edition)

Joachim Fest, Plotting Hitler’s Death:  The History of the German Resistance

Paul Carrell, Hitler Moves East: 1941-1943 and Scorched Earth: The Russian-German War 1943-1944

Alexander Werth, Russia At War 1941-1945 Gabriel Gorodetsky, Grand Delusion:  Stalin and the German Invasion of Russia Harrison E. Salisbury, The 900 Days:  The Siege of Leningrad

Vasili Ivanovich Chikov, The Battle for Stalingrad

Peter G. Tsouras, Fighting in Hell:  The German Ordeal On The Eastern Front

Ronald E. Powaski, Lightning War:  Blitzkrieg in the West

Samuel W. Mitcham, Hitler’s Field Marchals and Their Battles

Omer Bartov, Hitler’s Army:  Soldiers, Nazis, and War in the Third Reich William Shirer, The Collapse of the Third Republic: An Inquiry into the Fall of France in 1940