It avoids a celebratory view of the war but preserves a profound respect for the problems the Allies faced and overcame as well as a realistic assessment of the Axis accomplishments and failures. Throughout, we see the relationship between the actual operations of the war and their political and moral implications.Ī War To Be Won is the culmination of decades of research by two of America’s premier military historians. The authors present incisive portraits of the military leaders, on both sides of the struggle, demonstrating the ambiguities they faced, the opportunities they took, and those they missed. Moving between the war room and the battlefield, we see how strategies were crafted and revised, and how the multitudes of combat troops struggled to discharge their orders. Millett analyze the operations and tactics that defined the conduct of the war in both the European and Pacific Theaters. A War To Be Won is a unique and powerful operational history of the Second World War that tells the full story of battle on land, on sea, and in the air.
Now, for the first time, we have a comprehensive, single-volume account of how and why this global conflict evolved as it did. Its global scope and human toll reveal the true face of modern, industrialized warfare. In the course of the twentieth century, no war looms as profoundly transformative or as destructive as World War II.
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