"After a crushing loss at Stalingrad, the German war machine regrouped in early 1943 to stave off total defeat, but it could not stem the rising Allied tide. In the Mediterranean, Rommel's early successes in Africa were erased by the surrender of Tunisia, and German forces barely escaped Sicily before the Allies seized the island. On the Eastern Front, Soviet T-34s beat German armour in the massive tank battle at Kursk. At sea, the Allies countered the U-boat threat, and in the air, Allied forces dominated the Luftwaffe and took the war to the German home front."--Publisher's description.

Nazi Germany and the Wehrmacht, 1933-42 -- Manstein restores the southern flank -- The defeat of the German navy -- Tunisgrad -- The bombing intensifies -- The state of the Wehrmacht, spring 1943 -- Hitler's summer offensive -- The retreat begins in the East -- Decay and disarray in the Mediterranean -- The Allied invasion of southern Europe -- The fall of fascism and the loss of Sicily -- Cracking the floodgates: the Russian front from 1943 to early 1944 -- The Italian defection and the Battle of Salerno -- Salerno to the Gustave Line.