Tomorrow The World; Hitler, Northwest Africa, and the Path toward America

College Station, Texas: Texas A& M University Press, 1998. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Hardcover. xxvi, 307, [3] pages. Minor soiling inside front cover and on fep near bottom. DJ has minor wear. Includes List of Maps, Preface, Introduction, Conclusion, Notes, Bibliography, and Index. Also includes chapters on The Window on the Atlantic; The Demand for Casablanca; The Specter of de Gaulle; The Riddle of the Rock; September Shifts; October Illusions; Winter Collapse I: Iberia; Winter Collapse II: France; and Passing the Torch. Also contains 2 frontispiece maps, one of Morocco, 1940-42, and one of Northwest Africa, June 1940-Novermber 1942. Norman J. W. Goda (born 1961) is an American historian specialized in the history of the Nazi Germany and the Holocaust. He is a professor of history at the University of Florida, where he is the Norman and Irma Braman Professor of Holocaust Studies. Goda is the author of several books on the international policy of Nazi Germany, the Holocaust, and the Cold War. He also serves as a historical consultant for the Nazi War Crimes and Japanese Imperial Government Records Interagency Working Group of the United States National Security Archive, tasked with reviewing the previously-classified intelligence documents of the World War II and its aftermath. Goda is the co-author of the book U.S. Intelligence and the Nazis, which was published in 2005 by the Cambridge University Press and based on the materials that were declassified under the 1998 Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act. The author questions both the more traditional interpretations that Hitler's Germany operated from unplanned opportunism and that its aims were confined to the European continent. His extremely close reading of the diplomatic and military sources from German, Spanish, and French records also opens new windows on the policies of Franco's Spain and Petain's France. By focusing on policy formulation and implementation at the political and diplomatic level, he adds substantial evidence for the view that Hitler's ambitions were not just grandiose table talk, but formed the basis for concrete military plans and building projects. Military historians and scholars of World War II will welcome this assiduously researched and well-crafted study for the light it throws on some of the classic arguments of the period. As early as the 1920s Adolf Hitler argued that his struggle for dominance would be worldwide. Before war began in Europe, Berlin had already placed contracts for a massive surface navy and four-engine bombers that could cross the Atlantic. Norman J. W. Goda traces the documentary evidence of Germany's long-term plans to extend its conquests to America. This cogently argued book focuses on Germany's secret efforts to gain base sites for the new navy and long-range bombers in French North West Africa, Spain's Canary Islands, and Portugal's Azores and Cape Verde Islands. During this period Hitler rated the base issue a higher priority than the efficient prosecution of the war against Great Britain and second only to the Eastern Campaign. In the end, Berlin failed to gain base sites. The effort antagonized Spain and France, pushing them away from a more actively pro-German stance. Germany also misjudged America's capability to capture the sites and consequently left Northwest Africa relatively unprepared for the Allied invasion of 1942. Condition: Very good / Very good.

Keywords: World War II, Germany, Foreign Relations, Strategy, Count Ciano, Jean-Francois Darlan, Dakar, Operation Felix, Huntziger, Charles Nogues, Henri Petain, Erich Raeder, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Serrano Suner, Warlimont, Weizsacker

ISBN: 0890968071

[Book #82093]

Price: $75.00

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