Blitzkrieg

Blitzkrieg is the first part of a four-volume series, published in association with the Imperial War Museum, covering the six-year global conflagration of the Second World War. The other titles in the series are Axis Ascendant, The Turning of the Tide and The Struggle for Victory. Blitzkrieg describes the slow spiraling to war: from the forging of peace after the First World War to the wars of Italy, China and Japan in the 1930s. It then goes on to document the dramatic events of 1938-41: from the Munich Crisis in 1938 to the defeat of France, from the retreat at Dunkirk to the sinking of the Bismarck. Blitzkrieg is also part of the wider André Deutsch ebook only series A World at War.

Series Introduction:Published for the first time in digital format, André Deutsch’s ‘A World at War’ series presents a collection of authoritative and concise military histories written by some of the world’s most respected military and social historians. We launch with a series of 12 titles on the First and Second World Wars by authors including Gary Sheffield, Richard Overy, Juliet Gardiner and Richard Holmes. Future titles will cover subjects ranging from the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars, to the American Civil War and the Vietnam War, by authors such as Sir Alistair Horne and Major General Julian Thompson.