Churchill and Hitler: Essays on the Political-Military Direction of Total War [Paperback]

This collection of essays examines the development of Churchill and Hitler as strategic leaders and analyses in particular the impact of their formative years on their leadership styles, operational codes', views on civilmilitary relations, and approaches to the conduct of war at strategic, operational and tactical levels. Ultimately, victory depended on the calculated use of all the means of national power military, political, psychological and economic to achieve the national end. These essays demonstrate it was Churchill who best understood that calculation.This collection of essays examines the development of Churchill and Hitler as strategic leaders, analyzing in particular the impact of their formative years.Introduction - the Clausewitzian trinity; Churchll - the making of a grand strategist; the paradox of duality - Adolf Hitler and the concept of military surprise; Churchill - the Victorian man of action; strategic reality is not enough - hitler and the concept of crazy states; landmarks in defence literature - The World Crisis, The Unknown War, The Aftermath, Marlborough, his Life and Times; Roehm and Hitler - the continuity of political-military discord.USCopyright ? 1994 David Jablonsky