Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part I Background
- Part II The Nazi system
- Part III Background for war
- Part IV World War II
- 12 German diplomacy toward the Soviet Union
- 13 The Nazi–Soviet pacts of 1939: A half century later
- 14 From confrontation to cooperation: Germany and the United States, 1917–1949
- 15 Pearl Harbor: The German perspective
- 16 Global conflict: The interaction between the European and Pacific theaters of war in World War II
- 17 The “Final Solution” and the war in 1943
- 18 July 20, 1944: The German resistance to Hitler
- 19 D-Day after fifty years: Assessments of costs and benefits
- 20 German plans for victory, 1944–1945
- 21 Reflections on running a war: Hitler, Churchill, Stalin, Roosevelt, Tojo
- 22 Some thoughts on World War II
- 23 A new Germany in a new world
- Appendix: the end of Ranke's history? Reflections on the fate of history in the twentieth century
- Index
16 - Global conflict: The interaction between the European and Pacific theaters of war in World War II
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 August 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part I Background
- Part II The Nazi system
- Part III Background for war
- Part IV World War II
- 12 German diplomacy toward the Soviet Union
- 13 The Nazi–Soviet pacts of 1939: A half century later
- 14 From confrontation to cooperation: Germany and the United States, 1917–1949
- 15 Pearl Harbor: The German perspective
- 16 Global conflict: The interaction between the European and Pacific theaters of war in World War II
- 17 The “Final Solution” and the war in 1943
- 18 July 20, 1944: The German resistance to Hitler
- 19 D-Day after fifty years: Assessments of costs and benefits
- 20 German plans for victory, 1944–1945
- 21 Reflections on running a war: Hitler, Churchill, Stalin, Roosevelt, Tojo
- 22 Some thoughts on World War II
- 23 A new Germany in a new world
- Appendix: the end of Ranke's history? Reflections on the fate of history in the twentieth century
- Index
Summary
The concept of an earth that is round rather than flat is supposed to be generally accepted, but is implications for history – as opposed to navigation – are not always recognized. The Second World War is all too often looked at as if the world were a cube. One side of the globe is examined after another, one theater is reviewed after the next, and in the process the interrelations between them are all too often overlooked. This is particularly true of the European and Pacific theaters, which are usually dealt with quite separately, only the barest mention being made of the interconnected character of global war. But when we do this, treating war on one side of the globe as a sort of appendix to the other or alternating mechanically between them, we hide from our vision key aspects of all theaters of war and make it impossible to understand significant features of the conflict.
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- Germany, Hitler, and World War IIEssays in Modern German and World History, pp. 205 - 216Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1995