Examines the economics of the conflict and the importance of the Allies' superior industrial capacity and reserves of raw material to the outcome of the war.

U.S. Army Chief of Staff's Professional reading list, 2017. INCLUDES INDEX. The U.S. Army Chief of Staff's Professional Reading List 2017 Includes maps of: Eastern Front - Operation Barbarossa, 22 June-4 December 1941; Eastern Front - the Repulse before Moscow and the Stalingrad Offensive, 4 December 1941-18 November 1942; Eatern Front - the Drive to Berlin, 18 November 1942-9 May 1945; North African Campaign, 13 September 1940-12 May 1943; Gazala-Alamein Battlefield; Tunisian Battlefield; Italian Campaign - 9 July 1943-4 May 1945; Northwest Europe - Normandy to Berlin, 6 June 1944-7 May 1945; Pacific - the Japanese Onslaught, 7 December 1941-7 August 1942; Pacific - the American Counteroffensive, 7 August 1942-15 August 1945.

Prologue: the last European war: Poland, France and the battle of Britain September 1939 -- March 1941 -- pt. I: 'One can only obey': the Eastern front 1941-45 -- Blitzkrieg founders: June 1941-June 1943 -- The long retreat: July 1943-May 1945 -- pt. II: War from afar: the battle of the Atlantic and the bomber offensive 1939-45 -- The battle of the Atlantic: September 1939-May 1945 -- Appendix: VLR aircraft and antisubmarine warfare -- The bomber offensive: June 1940-May 1945 -- Appendix: technical measures and counter-measures during the bomber offensive -- pt. III: 'No more manoeuvre': the Mediterranean 1940-45 -- The North African see-saw: June 1940-January 1943 -- Tunisia and Italy: November 1942-May 1945 -- pt. IV: 'One brick at a time': North-West Europe June 1944-May 1945 -- Lodgement and breakout: 6 June-31 August 1944 -- Inching to victory; September 1944-May 1945 -- pt. V: 'One hell of a way to run a war': the Pacific, December 1941-August 1945 -- Collapse and containment: December 1941-February 1943 -- The counter-offensive: March 1943-August 1945 -- Appendix: the was in south-East Asia 1941-45.