Why the allies won

Why the Allies Won

Unpredictable Victory

Little Ships and Lonely Aircraft: The Battle of the Seas

Deep War: Stalingrad and Kursk

The Means to Victory: Bombers and Bombing

Along a Good Road: The Invasion of France

A Genius for Mass-Production: Economies at War

A War of Engines: Technology and Military Power

Impossible Unity: Allies and Leaders in War

Evil Things, Excellent Things: The Moral Contest

“The Allies won the Second World War because they turned their economic strength into effective power, and turned the moral energies of their people into an effective will to win. …Materially rich, but divided, demoralised, and poorly led, the Allied coalition would have lost the war, however exaggerated Axis ambitions, however flawed their moral outlook.”

- Richard Overy, Why the Allies Won p. 325