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Author | : Mark Thompson |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 2019-12-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1476680043 |
A former Harvard professor of decision science and game theory draws on those disciplines in this review of controversial strategic and tactical decisions of World War II. Allied leaders--although outstanding in many ways--sometimes botched what now is termed meta-decision making or deciding how to decide. Operation Jubilee, a single-division raid on Dieppe, France, in August 1942, for example, illustrated the pitfalls of groupthink. In the Allied invasion of North Africa three months later, American and British leaders fell victim to the planning fallacy: having unrealistically rosy expectations of an easy victory. In Sicily in the summer of 1943, they violated the millennia-old principle of command unity--now re-endorsed and elaborated on by modern theorists. Had Allied strategists understood the game theory of bluffing, in January 1944 they might well not have landed two-plus divisions at Anzio in Italy.
Author | : Ian Kershaw |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 596 |
Release | : 2013-04-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0141915048 |
In 1940 the world was on a knife-edge. The hurricane of events that marked the opening of the Second World War meant that anything could happen. For the aggressors there was no limit to their ambitions; for their victims a new Dark Age beckoned. Over the next few months their fates would be determined. In Fateful Choices Ian Kershaw re-creates the ten critical decisions taken between May 1940, when Britain chose not to surrender, and December 1941, when Hitler decided to destroy Europe’s Jews, showing how these choices would recast the entire course of history.
Author | : Mark Thompson |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 2020-01-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1476638381 |
A former Harvard professor of decision science and game theory draws on those disciplines in this review of controversial strategic and tactical decisions of World War II. Allied leaders--although outstanding in many ways--sometimes botched what now is termed meta-decision making or deciding how to decide. Operation Jubilee, a single-division raid on Dieppe, France, in August 1942, for example, illustrated the pitfalls of groupthink. In the Allied invasion of North Africa three months later, American and British leaders fell victim to the planning fallacy: having unrealistically rosy expectations of an easy victory. In Sicily in the summer of 1943, they violated the millennia-old principle of command unity--now re-endorsed and elaborated on by modern theorists. Had Allied strategists understood the game theory of bluffing, in January 1944 they might well not have landed two-plus divisions at Anzio in Italy.
Author | : Wilson D. Miscamble |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 189 |
Release | : 2011-04-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1139498312 |
This book explores the American use of atomic bombs and the role these weapons played in the defeat of the Japanese Empire in World War II. It focuses on President Harry S. Truman's decision-making regarding this most controversial of all his decisions. The book relies on notable archival research and the best and most recent scholarship on the subject to fashion an incisive overview that is fair and forceful in its judgments. This study addresses a subject that has been much debated among historians and it confronts head-on the highly disputed claim that the Truman administration practised 'atomic diplomacy'. The book goes beyond its central historical analysis to ask whether it was morally right for the United States to use these terrible weapons against Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It also provides a balanced evaluation of the relationship between atomic weapons and the origins of the Cold War.
Author | : Michael Bess |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 418 |
Release | : 2008-03-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0307275809 |
World War II was the quintessential “good war.” It was not, however, a conflict free of moral ambiguity, painful dilemmas, and unavoidable compromises. Was the bombing of civilian populations in Germany and Japan justified? Were the Nuremberg and Tokyo war crimes trials legally scrupulous? What is the legacy bequeathed to the world by Hiroshima? With wisdom and clarity, Michael Bess brings a fresh eye to these difficult questions and others, arguing eloquently against the binaries of honor and dishonor, pride and shame, and points instead toward a nuanced reckoning with one of the most pivotal conflicts in human history.
Author | : Lynne Olson |
Publisher | : Random House Incorporated |
Total Pages | : 577 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1400069742 |
Traces the crisis period leading up to America's entry in World War II, describing the nation's polarized interventionist and isolation factions as represented by the government, in the press and on the streets, in an account that explores the forefront roles of British-supporter President Roosevelt and isolationist Charles Lindbergh. (This book was previously featured in Forecast.)
Author | : Kenneth Macksey |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
This compelling book presents ten scenarios that might have changed the course of the Second World War, featuring detailed examinations by ten leading military historians. of illustrations. 12 maps.
Author | : Antony Beevor |
Publisher | : Back Bay Books |
Total Pages | : 829 |
Release | : 2012-06-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0316084077 |
A masterful and comprehensive chronicle of World War II, by internationally bestselling historian Antony Beevor. Over the past two decades, Antony Beevor has established himself as one of the world's premier historians of WWII. His multi-award winning books have included Stalingrad and The Fall of Berlin 1945. Now, in his newest and most ambitious book, he turns his focus to one of the bloodiest and most tragic events of the twentieth century, the Second World War. In this searing narrative that takes us from Hitler's invasion of Poland on September 1st, 1939 to V-J day on August 14, 1945 and the war's aftermath, Beevor describes the conflict and its global reach -- one that included every major power. The result is a dramatic and breathtaking single-volume history that provides a remarkably intimate account of the war that, more than any other, still commands attention and an audience. Thrillingly written and brilliantly researched, Beevor's grand and provocative account is destined to become the definitive work on this complex, tragic, and endlessly fascinating period in world history, and confirms once more that he is a military historian of the first rank.
Author | : Edmund Blandford |
Publisher | : Castle Books |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2001-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780785813668 |
Blunder, was probably a matter of life or death and caused by a decision taken under the stress and pressure of combat.
Author | : Harold Charles Deutsch |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Researched by a team of expert historians, this book has a collection of essays examining 'alternate' historical scenarios of World War 2. With emphasis on military issues, this book explores the course of history in radical new directions.