Blitzkrieg to Defeat Author:H.R. Trevor-Roper "The most important heretofore unpublished documents of World War II, Hitler's War directives, together with a running commentary by the eminent Brititsh historian H. R. Trevor Roper provide a unique and significant history of the war. — Between 1939 and 1945 Hitler personally issued seventy four directives, or position papers, controliing the ge... more »neral strategy of each major phase of the war. This series begins with the invasion of Poland, continues through the attacks on Norway, France and Russia, the fighing in the Mediterranean Theater, the retreat on the Eastern Front and ends with the directives issued from Hitler's Berlin bunkers as the Russians armies moved into the city« less