{"product_id":"hitler-at-war-power-chaos-and-destruction-in-world-war-ii-9798198509511","title":"Hitler at War: Power, Chaos, and Destruction in World War II","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): James Britton\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the summer of 1940, Adolf Hitler stood at the peak of his power. France had fallen in six weeks. Europe lay at his feet. To millions, he appeared not merely as a political leader but as a military genius: bold, decisive, and seemingly unstoppable.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFive years later, that image lay in ruins alongside the regime that had created it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eHitler at War\u003c\/i\u003e traces the full arc of Hitler's military leadership, from the confident rearmament of the 1930s and the stunning early victories, through the catastrophic gamble of Operation Barbarossa, the disaster at Stalingrad, the failure to repel the Allied landings at Normandy, and the final collapse in the Berlin bunker in April 1945.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing on the work of leading historians including Ian Kershaw, Antony Beevor, Alan Bullock, and Richard Evans, this book asks a deceptively simple question: how much of what appeared to be genius was, in reality, illusion?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe answer is both revealing and cautionary. Hitler's early successes owed as much to Allied weakness and professional military expertise as to his own judgment. The qualities that produced those victories (boldness, a willingness to override conventional wisdom, absolute confidence in personal intuition) became, in the wider and more demanding context of a world war, the precise mechanisms of catastrophic failure.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eHitler at War: Command, Myth and Catastrophe\u003c\/i\u003e is the first volume in the \u003cb\u003eShort Histories\u003c\/b\u003e series: concise, authoritative narrative histories written for the curious general reader.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47890453135511,"sku":"9798198509511","price":1044.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798198509511.webp?v=1781180081","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/hitler-at-war-power-chaos-and-destruction-in-world-war-ii-9798198509511","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}