Blitzkrieg No Longer

The German Wehrmacht in Battle, 1943

Samuel W. Mitcham

• Publisher: Stackpole Books
• Year: 2009
• Topic: History
• eBook ISBN:
  9780811742061
• Subtopic: World War II
• Index: History

• A pivotal year of World War II through German eyes

• The campaigns of the German army, air force, and navy described by a master storyteller

• Covers the aftermath of Stalingrad, Kursk, Tunisia, Sicily, Italy, the U-boat war, and air battles

After a crushing loss at Stalingrad, the German war machine regrouped in early 1943 to stave off total defeat, but it could not stem the rising Allied tide. In the Mediterranean, Rommel's early successes in Africa were erased by the surrender of Tunisia, and German forces barely escaped Sicily before the Allies seized the island. On the Eastern Front, Soviet T-34s beat German armor in the massive tank battle at Kursk. At sea, the Allies countered the U-boat threat, and in the air, Allied forces dominated the Luftwaffe and took the war to the German home front

Table of contents

• Introduction
• Chapter 1 Nazi Germany and the Wehrmacht, 1933–42
• Chapter 2 Manstein Restores the Southern Flank
• Chapter 3 The Defeat of the German Navy
• Chapter 4 Tunisgrad
• Chapter 5 The Bombing Intensifies
• Chapter 6 The State of the Wehrmacht, Spring 1943
• Chapter 7 Hitler’s Summer Offensive
• Chapter 8 The Retreat Begins in the East
• Chapter 9 Decay and Disarray in the Mediterranean
• Chapter 10 The Allied Invasion of Southern Europe
• Chapter 11 The Fall of Fascism and the Loss of Sicily
• Chapter 12 Cracking the Floodgates: The Russian Front from 1943 to Early 1944
• Chapter 13 The Italian Defection and the Battle of Salerno
• Chapter 14 Salerno to the Gustav Line
• Appendix A Table of Comparative Ranks
• Appendix B German Staff Positions
• Appendix C German Units, Ranks, and Strengths
• Appendix D Characteristics of Select German and Allied Tanks
• Appendix E Luftwaffe Aviation Units, Strengths, and Ranks
• Notes
• Bibliography