T.A., Who is the publisher of this trollop of a book? [img]graemlins/bazooka.gif[/img]
I wonder why books like this see the light of day through a publisher (a big one, perhaps, without a decent history editor??) and some great books (written by vets or serious researchers) remain unpublished.... [img]graemlins/no.gif[/img]
Maybe one should enage in a career of publishing anyway...
Later:
Oh dear, this man is a
Professor and a former Pulitzer-prize (in history) nominee (for his book on
the Myth of the Great War)
[...]The Blitzkrieg Myth clarifies this misconception by tracking through the major campaigns in Europe. Mosier emphasizes that the Polish campaign in the fall of 1939 and the fall of France in spring 1940 were not blitzkrieg victories. He also explains how Rommel's North African campaigns, D-Day, the Normandy campaign, Hitler's final frantic breakthrough attempt into Antwerp in the Battle of the Bulge in December 1944, and other actions do not support the blitzkrieg myth. Actually, Mosier says, strategic airfare in Europe was almost a failure. The warfare of World War II really represented only an advance in technology, not strategy.
Mosier affirms that the allies won due to a combination of numbers and the democracies of the United States and Great Britain. The Germans' handicap, Mosier confirms, was that they eventually became locked into Hitler's master plan, and furthermore, their victories were a result of luck.
"They think the title is going to sell the book," says Mosier about publisher HarperCollins (the biggest publisher in America); people are still oblivious that the blitzkrieg myth is actually a myth. Mosier trusts his 80-year-old editor at HarperCollins, who is a military history expert and who suggested the title[...] 
http://www.loyno.edu/newsandcalendar...11/mosier.html
[ 15. February 2005, 01:45 AM: Message edited by: Stevin ]