Bevin Alexander - How Hitler Could Have Won World War II

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Photograph on title page: Adolf Hitler (right) and Field Marshall Walther von Brauchtisch, German army commander. ( Topham/The Image Works )

Photograph: Adolf Hitler walks up stairs at a Nazi rally in Germany prior to the war. ( Topham/The Image Works )

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Alexander, Bevin.

How Hitler could have won World War II: the fatal errors that led to Nazi defeat / by Bevin Alexander; maps drawn by Jeffrey L. Ward.

Includes bibliographical references.

1. Hitler, Adolf, 1889–1945—Military leadership. 2. World War, 1939–1945—Germany. 3.

Strategy—History—20th century. I. Title.

DD247.H5 A7487 2000

943.086’092—dc21 00-029429

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