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Deighton, author of SS-GB and other thrillers, turns to history again with this companion piece …
Flying home from his Anschluss triumph, Hitler had shown General Keitel how his mind was working. He put his hand across a small newspaper map of Europe so that his finger and thumb covered Germany and Austria. He nipped Czechoslovakia and then winked at Keitel.
— Blitzkrieg by Len Deighton (Page 71)
Deighton, author of SS-GB and other thrillers, turns to history again with this companion piece …
But as the war continued, it was Hitler’s political dogma that ensured the failure of his military aims. His worst military decisions – the refusal to let units withdraw to better positions, the obsession with towns that had strong psychological overtones (such as Leningrad and Stalingrad), and the political interference with the army – all these stemmed from his fears of political consequences. Politically motivated plans can be fatal to world conquest as to car factories.
— Blitzkrieg by Len Deighton (Page 64 - 65)
Yet war without politics is just destruction for the sake of destruction. The political gives it meaning.
Deighton, author of SS-GB and other thrillers, turns to history again with this companion piece to his own, more dramatic …
Deighton, author of SS-GB and other thrillers, turns to history again with this companion piece to his own, more dramatic …
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Highly detailed with excellent photographs.
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Very enjoyable
"A revelatory popular history that tells the story of the Suez Crisis and the Hungarian …
Brilliant & engaging parallet examination of the Suez and Hungarian crises of 1956.
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