Germany and the Second World War
Cover of the original German edition of volume 1
Germany and the Second World War (German: Das Deutsche Reich und der Zweite Weltkrieg) is a 12,000-page, 13-volume work published by the Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt (DVA), that has taken academics from the military history centre of the German armed forces 30 years to finish.[1][2]
Germany and the Second World War
Germany and the Second World War is the English translation of the series which Clarendon Press (an imprint of Oxford University Press) began publishing in 1990. By 2014, ten of the 13 parts had been published at a rate of one every two years, although a long delay occurred between the publications of parts IX/I and IX/II after the death of the main translation editor.
In the following table, the publishing dates of the final three parts are approximate and come from communication with Oxford University Press. The titles and number of pages are based on the German volumes and may change. The volumes are (German title in brackets):
| Volume | Title | Authors | Translators | Publication Date | Pages | Availability | ISBN |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| I | The Build-up of German Aggression (Ursachen und Voraussetzungen der deutschen Kriegspolitik) | Wilhelm Deist, Manfred Messerschmidt, Hans-Erich Volkmann, Wolfram Wette | P. S. Falla, Dean S. McMurry, Ewald Osers | 1990 | 827 | On-demand reprints | 0-19-822866-X |
| II | Germany's Initial Conquests in Europe (Die Errichtung der Hegemonie auf dem europäischen Kontinent) | Klaus A. Maier, Horst Rohde, Bernd Stegemann, Hans Umbreit | Dean S. McMurry, Ewald Osers, P. S. Falla (translation editor) | 1991 | 459 | On-demand reprints | 0-19-822885-6 |
| III | The Mediterranean, South-East Europe, and North Africa 1939–1942 (Der Mittelmeerraum und Südosteuropa 1940–1941: Von der "non belligeranza" Italiens bis zum Kriegseintritt der Vereinigten Staaten) | Gerhard Schreiber, Bernd Stegemann, Detlef Vogel | Dean S. McMurry, Ewald Osers, Louise Willmot, P. S. Falla (translation editor) | 1995 | 840 | On-demand reprints | 0-19-822884-8 |
| IV * | The Attack on the Soviet Union (Der Angriff auf die Sowjetunion) | Horst Boog, Jürgen Förster, Joachim Hoffmann, Ernst Klink, Rolf-Dieter Müller, Gerd R. Ueberschär | Dean S. McMurry, Ewald Osers, Louise Willmot | 1998 | 1396 | On-demand reprints | 0-19-822886-4 |
| V/I | Organization and Mobilization of the German Sphere of Power: Wartime Administration, Economy, and Manpower Resources 1939–1941 (Kriegsverwaltung, Wirtschaft und personelle Ressourcen 1939–1941) | Bernhard R. Kroener, Rolf-Dieter Müller, Hans Umbreit | John Brownjohn, Patricia Crampton, Ewald Osers, Louise Willmot | 2000 | 1253 | On-demand reprints | 0-19-822887-2 |
| V/II | Organization and Mobilization of the German Sphere of Power: Wartime Administration, Economy, and Manpower Resources 1942–1944/5 (Kriegsverwaltung, Wirtschaft und personelle Ressourcen 1942–1945) | Bernhard R. Kroener, Rolf-Dieter Müller, Hans Umbreit | Derry Cook-Radmore, Ewald Osers, Barry Smerin, Barbara Wilson | 2003 | 1183 | In-print | 0-19-820873-1 |
| VI | The Global War (Der globale Krieg: Die Ausweitung zum Weltkrieg und der Wechsel zur Initiative 1941 bis 1943) | Horst Boog, Werner Rahn, Reinhard Stumpf, Bernd Wegner | Ewald Osers, John Brownjohn, Patricia Crampton, Louise Willmot | 2001 | 1347 | On-demand reprints | 0-19-822888-0 |
| VII | The Strategic Air War in Europe and the War in the West and East Asia 1943–1944/5 (Das Deutsche Reich in der Defensive Strategischer Luftkrieg in Europa, Krieg im Westen und in Ostasien 1943 bis 1944/45) | Horst Boog, Gerhard Krebs, Detlef Vogel | Derry Cook-Radmore, Francisca Garvie, Ewald Osers, Barry Smerin, Barbara Wilson | 2006 | 928 | In-print | 0-19-822889-9 |
| VIII | The War in the East and in Other Fronts 1943/44 (approximate title) (Das Deutsche Reich in der Defensive: Die Ostfront 1943/44 Der Krieg im Osten und an den Nebenfronten) | Karl-Heinz Frieser, Klaus Schmider, Klaus Schönherr, Gerhard Schreiber, Krisztián Ungváry, Bernd Wegner | TBA | 2017 (approximate) | 1350 (approximate) | To be published | TBA |
| IX/I | German Wartime Society 1939–1945: Politicization, Disintegration, and the Struggle for Survival (Staat und Gesellschaft im Kriege: Die deutsche Kriegsgesellschaft 1939 bis 1945. Politisierung, Vernichtung, Überleben) | Ralf Blank, Jörg Echternkamp, Karola Fings, Jürgen Förster, Winfried Heinemann, Tobias Jersak, Armin Nolzen, Christoph Rass | Derry Cook-Radmore, Francisca Garvie, Ewald Osers, Barry Smerin, Barbara Wilson | 2008 | 1072 | In-print | 0-19928-277-3 |
| IX/II | German Wartime Society 1939–1945: Exploitation, Interpretations, Exclusion (Staat und Gesellschaft im Kriege: Die deutsche Kriegsgesellschaft 1939 bis 1945. Ausbeutung, Deutungen, Ausgrenzung) | Bernhard Chiari, Jörg Echternkamp, et al. | Derry Cook-Radmore, et al. | 2014 | 1168 | In-print | 0-19-954296-1 |
| X/I | The Collapse of Germany 1945 and the Results of the Second World War: The Destruction of the Wehrmacht (approximate title) (Das Ende des Dritten Reiches: Der Zusammenbruch des Deutschen Reiches 1945: Die militärische Niederwerfung der Wehrmacht) | Rolf-Dieter Müller, et al. | TBA | 2018 (approximate) | 1000 (approximate) | To be published | TBA |
| X/II | The Collapse of Germany 1945 and the Results of the Second World War: The Resolution of the Wehrmacht and the Consequences of the War (Der Zusammenbruch des Deutschen Reiches 1945. Die Folgen des Zweiten Weltkrieges) | Rolf-Dieter Müller, et al. | TBA | 2018 (approximate) | 850 (approximate) | To be published | TBA |
* The first edition of Volume IV also included a separate spiral-bound book of 27 maps in the original German version
See also
History of the Second World War
References
External links
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