Schreiber, Gerhard, Stegemann, Bernd, Vogel, Detlef 　著

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Part 1 Political and military developments inthe mediterranean area,1939-1941, Gerhard Schreiber: Mussolini's "non-belligerence; Italy's entryinto the war; the strategic dilemma of the summer and autumn of 1940 - analternativr or interim strategy?; ideas of German ruling circles concerning acolonial empire. Part 2 Germany, Italy and South-East Europe - from politicaland economic hegemony to military aggression, Gerhard Schreiber: unequalheirs of World War I; German and Italian policy towards the states ofSouth-East Europe; Mussolini's invasion of Greece - the beginning of the endof Italy's great-power status. Part 3 German intervention in the Balkans,Detlef Vogel: Germany's Balkan policy in the autumn of 1940 and the spring of1941; from the coup in Yugoslavia to the outbreak of war on 6 April 1941; theGerman attack on Yugoslavia and Greece; the capture of Crete. Part 4 Politicsand warfare in 1941, Gerhard Schreiber: the Anglo-American association andits consequences for British strategy; Hitler's strategic deliberations inconnection with the attack on the Soviet Union. Part 5 The Italo-Germanconduct of the war in the Mediterranean and North Africa, Bernd Stegemann:the British take the offensive in North and East Africa; German interventionand its effects on the naval and air war in the Mediterranean; the reconquestof Cyrenaica and the failure of the attacks on Tobruk; the fighting on theSollum front; the naval and air war in the Mediterranean and supplies for theNorth African theatre; Operation Crusader.