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|title=Defeating Hitler: Whitehall's Top Secret Report on Why Hitler Lost the War

|author=Paul Winter

|publisher=Continuum

|date=June 2012

|summary=Quite an academic tome, but this look at WWII from just beyond its dying days provides a very different slant to modern volumes.

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Just how and why did Hitler lose the Second World War? The message in [[Fatherland by Robert Harris]] is that he spent too much effort killing Jews to concentrate on anything else. Remarkably, this look at more explicit reasons for the end of the Third Reich barely mentions the Holocaust. What we have is ''Some Weaknesses in German Strategy and Organisation 1933-1945'' - a document drawn up by what would now have to be called Whitehall Mandarins, written during a year of war and a year of peace, that itemises for those with enough security clearance just what Hitler's chain of command was, and what his thinking was for each theatre of the War. It was never Top Secret, but was classified for thirty years and has spent about as long waiting for this hardback version.