Hitler’s War (1977): Chapter 16 – Cold Harvest
David Irving HITLER’S WAR Pricking the Bubble The dazzling heat of high summer had come to the Berghof. It was now early June 1941 : with a suddenness that caused…
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Hitler’s War (1977): Chapter 17
David Irving HITLER’S WAR PART 3 CRUSADE INTO RUSSIA The Country Poacher Thus Adolf Hitler at fifty-two set out to conquer Russia. In a terrible, unceasing onslaught his gray legions…
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Hitler’s War (1977): Chapter 18 – The Turncoat
David Irving HITLER’S WAR Kiev In his New Year proclamation Hitler had promised the German people the war would be over by the end of 1941. By mid-August he knew…
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Hitler’s War (1977): Chapter 19
David Irving HITLER’S WAR Cold Harvest Only the weather could now thwart him. On October 2, 1941, as “Typhoon” began, lunch started fifty minutes late at his headquarters as he…
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Hitler’s War (1977): Chapter 20 – The Onslaught: Manstein and Rommel
David Irving HITLER’S WAR A Test of Endurance In Stalin, Hitler unquestionably now knew, he had met his match. As the Soviet resistance hardened despite each fresh catastrophe inflicted on…
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Hitler’s War (1977): Chapter 21 – Trauma and Tragedy
David Irving HITLER’S WAR Hitler Takes Command In the dark months of that winter Hitler showed his iron determination and hypnotic powers of leadership. We shall see how these qualities…
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Hitler’s War (1977): Chapter 22 – The War Against Guerrillas
David Irving HITLER’S WAR Hitler’s Word Is Law The first half of 1942 was again to bring the Soviet Union to the brink of defeat. From the intercepted messages passing…
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Hitler’s War (1977): Chapter 23 – Black December
David Irving HITLER’S WAR “ Blue ” In mid-1942 Hitler launched his rebuilt armies into “Operation Blue”—the summer campaign that he hoped would leave him master of all Europe as…
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Hitler’s War (1977): Chapter 24 – Stalingrad
David Irving HITLER’S WAR The Black Spot for Halder Once before, in July 1918, German troops had invaded the Caucasus. The Turks had caved in the Russian front and marched…
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Hitler’s War (1977): Chapter 25 – No Withdrawal
David Irving HITLER’S WAR Africa and Stalingrad Hitler believed he had good reason to face the coming winter with optimism. The railway transport crisis had been overcome. The harvest throughout…
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Hitler’s War (1977): Chapter 26 – The Family Circle
David Irving HITLER’S WAR PART 4 TOTAL WAR Trauma and Tragedy Few events in World War II were to rouse greater controversy than Stalingrad ; around even fewer was to…
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Hitler’s War (1977): Chapter 27 – Clutching at Straws
David Irving HITLER’S WAR Retreat Hitler saw in the New Year, 1943, sitting alone in his bunker with Martin Bormann, his Party secretary, until after 4:00 A.M. This itself presaged…
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Hitler’s War (1977): Chapter 28 – No Dieppe
David Irving HITLER’S WAR Strychnine Until mid-March 1943 Hitler remained in the Ukraine, seven hundred miles from Berlin. Werewolf in winter was a bleak and dreary site. Battle-scarred aircraft stood…
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Hitler’s War (1977): Chapter 29 – Man with a Yellow Leather Briefcase
David Irving HITLER’S WAR Clutching at Straws By the spring of 1943 the Axis alliance was a myth, and Hitler knew it. In Tunisia, Montgomery’s offensive had succeeded and the…
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Hitler’s War (1977): Chapter 30 – Rommel Gets a New Job
David Irving HITLER’S WAR Correcting the Front Line No month brought such concentrated high drama as July 1943. “Citadel” began, the enemy invaded Italian soil, the Russians sprang their own…
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Hitler’s War (1977): Chapter 31 – The Most Reviled
David Irving HITLER’S WAR “ Axis ” In the week immediately following Mussolini’s overthrow, Hitler vacillated between two extremes : his initial instinct was to send paratroops to Rome, flush…
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Hitler’s War (1977): Chapter 32 – He Who Rides a Tiger
David Irving HITLER’S WAR Feelers to Stalin While in the north Hitler’s troops stood their ground, the Russian offensive during September and October 1943 swept over Novorossisk, Bryansk, Poltava, Smolensk,…
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Hitler’s War (1977): Chapter 33 – The Worms Turn
David Irving HITLER’S WAR “ And So It Will Be, Mein F¸hrer ! ” In four years, the wheel had turned full circle, and Hitler had once again to attend…
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Hitler’s War (1977): Chapter 34 – Hitler Goes to Ground
David Irving HITLER’S WAR Trouble from Providence The Hitler of early 1944 was unlike the confident F¸hrer who had set out for the Polish front in his train in September…
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Hitler’s War (1977): Chapter 35 – The Gamble
David Irving HITLER’S WAR The Most Reviled Thus the Ukraine was lost—the fertile countryside for which Hitler had invaded Russia. The German invaders had been driven out by the Soviet…
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