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This chapter focuses on the Allied war effort, looking at the early failures with the defeat of France and the expulsion of Britain from Europe, then at the effort to blunt further Axis advance in 1942 until the tide was turned in 1943. Much emphasis is put on the German-Soviet war, for it was here that the German armed forces were fatally weakened. Western bombing did not significantly affect the German war effort before 1944, and not until then did a Western front open in France. The argument here is that the Soviet forces learned the hard way to become much more effective at operational warfare after Stalingrad. |
