The Stuggle For Europe

A detailed Summary of The Stuggle For Europe

Though this student looked in Who's Who and Contemporary Authors, no information on Chester Wilmot could be found.  One considered searching the Directory of American Scholars, but that would not be helpful since he is from Australia.

In The Struggle for Europe, Wilmot seeks to explain several points.  First, he explores and explains how the western allies succeeded militarily but failed politically during World War II.  He then elaborates on how and why the western allies crushed the Nazi regime; yet, they allowed the Soviet Union to overtake Eastern Europe and block the Atlantic Charter from taking effect in those nations.  Third, the author discusses Hitler's defeat and Stalin's victory.  Fourthly, he endeavors on a mission to explain how the Soviet Union replaced Germany as the dominant European power.

Beginning with the Battle of Britain, the book takes the reader through the war up to the surrender of Germany.  In this process Wilmot touches on Hitler's alliance with Mussolini, Hitler's conquest of France, the Lowlands, and the Balkans, and the Nazi dictator's collapse in the expansion of the Soviet Union.  The author strategically builds the Allied alliance, through the book's course, and he uses th

The Struggle for Europe deals fairly with both the Allied and Axis situations and decisions.  Wilmot gives equal discussion time to both sides in regards to strategy, view point, and military standing.  The book's overall organization exemplifies itself in terms of its thoroughness and readability.      He touches on almost every aspect of the European theater in 717 pages using many sources gathered from various locations.  The sources used include diaries, primary and secondary books, speeches, German and Russian archive material, U.S. Government records, and interviews.  His sources were far more than adequate.  The author definitely proves all of his points to some degree with some ideas being more justified than others.  He proves that the western allies did win the war militarily while losing Eastern Europe to the Soviets, politically.  Wilmot also shows how the Soviets skillfully maneuvered into the top position on the European continent after the fall of the Nazis.  With tremendous skill, he also describes the demise of the German armed forces from its height of power in 1941 to its destruction in April 1945.  His points are satisfactorily proven with only two flaws.

Outside of those two flaws, with the length of the book not being a problem, The Struggle for Europe magnificently covers the war.  Wilmot succeeds in delivering a thorough history of the war in Europe by all accounts.  In conclusion, the book provides a very fine and accurate description of the intricacies of WWII in Europe.  For anyone seeking in-depth knowledge on the European theater, this book is almost a must.  The book is further usef

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Approximate Word count = 1094
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)

Category: History