by Paul Kennedy
I should also like to acknowledge a heavy debt to the authors of works that are often referred to scornfully by professional (Ph.D.) historians as being written solely for “military history buffs.” Actually, I do not think this present book could have been written—certainly not to the depth it was—had it not been for my reliance upon numerous titles made available by Osprey Press, Pen and Sword, and other notable publishers of military-technological history. Many years ago Professor Lawrence Stone, generously reviewing a book far removed from his own tastes, observed that in Clio’s great mansion there are many corridors and many apartments; and that there is room for all. I like that.
Finally, I am indebted to the extraordinary quality of so many of the official histories put out by national governments or their armed services upon the various aspects of World War Two, military and civilian. Those composed by the American, British, and Dominion historians, some of them a full sixty years ago, are a tribute to their profession; well-written, balanced, critical (for example, the British and American histories of their own strategic bombing campaigns), and models of detached analysis. Then there is the impressive, more recent German official history, Das Deutsche Reich und der Zweite Weltkrieg, taking scholarship to new levels. This bibliography only contains titles expressly contained in the notes, but I did want to acknowledge my broader debts here.
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