The Second World War

• Series preface

• Introduction

• Unexplored questions about the German military during World War II

• Warlord Hitler: some points reconsidered

• M. van Creveld

• 1 October 1942

• Adolf Hitler, wehrmacht officer policy and social revolution

• Kursk - 60 years on

• Wehrmacht security regiments in the Soviet partisan war, 1943

• The infrastructure of communications intelligence: the allied D/F network and the Battle of the Atlantic

• The challenge of modernization: the Royal Canadian Navy and antisubmarine weapons, 1944-1945

• A question of success: tactical air doctrine and practice in North Africa, 1942-43

• The desertion crisis in Italy, Anon.

• SOE's achievements

• Operation Gunnerside reconsidered

• Combined amphibious doctrine for the allied invasion of Europe: tactical surprise vs. fire power

• D-Day - 60 years on

• 'Tommy is no soldier': the morale of the Second British Army in Normandy, June -August 1944

• 'The development of an unbeatable combination': US close air support in Normandy

• Best-laid plans

• Guy Simonds and Operation Totalize, 7-10 August 1944

• Montgomery, morale, casualty conservatism and 'colossal cracks'

• 21st Army group's operational technique in North West Europe, 1944-45

• Armageddon: an interview with Sir Max Hastings

• Victims of bombing and retaliation

• 'Ein volk steht auf': the German volkssturm and Nazi strategy, 1944-5

• The ideology of self-destruction

• Hitler and the choreography of defeat

• Forcible population transfers - a flawed legacy or an unavoidable necessity in protracted ethnic conflicts? The case of the Sudeten Germans

• The crack in the plaster: crisis in Romania and the origins of the Cold War

• S.L.A. Marshall and the ratio of fire

• The role of the Mexican expeditionary air force in World War II: late, limited, but symbolically significant

• Name index