1942 - Crux of War

With Jon Parshall

Part of our 1942 series

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Part of our North Africa series

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Part of our El Alamein series

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Third Reich and German units playlist

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Part of our ongoing Eastern Front series on WW2TV

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The Red Army (Soviet Forces) in WWII

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A chat with Jon Parshall about his new book.

An engrossing and encyclopedic narrative of the year in which the outcome of World War Two hung in the balance The year opened with the Axis powers inflicting a series of disasters on the newly formed Allies: Pearl Harbor, followed by Japan's conquest of the Philippines and Southeast Asia; Rommel running unchecked in North Africa; German U-boats transforming the East Coast of the United States into a shooting gallery; the failure of Britain's strategic bombing campaign; and devastating defeats of the Red Army at Kharkov, Crimea, and southern Russia.

By the summer of 1942, many of these theatres offered a grim global calculus.

Any notion of decisive victory seemed far-fetched.

Yet by the end of 1942 there had been a sea-change.

Within just one 40-day timespan, the British had triumphed over Rommel at Alamein; British and American forces landed in North Africa to confront the Axis position there; the Americans won two naval battles at Guadalcanal, sealing the fate of that campaign and with it Japanese expansionism; the Red Army launched a massive counter-offensive at Stalingrad that would condemn six Axis armies-and hundreds of thousands of German, Italian, Romanian and Hungarian soldiers-to eventual destruction.

The Allies had somehow gained the upper hand, forcing the Axis powers into a defensive crouch from which they would not rebound.

The war, in short, had turned.

Jonathan Parshall's epic 1942: Crux of War offers a sweeping new narrative and visual history.

Buy the book:

UK https://uk.bookshop.org/a/5843/9780197848371

USA https://bookshop.org/a/21029/9780197848371

Jon Parshall is the award-winning co-author of Shattered Sword: The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway; frequent lecturer for the U.S. Naval War College, the National World War II Museum, the Nimitz Museum, and many others; talking head on numerous TV shows; historian on a dozen Pacific tours; and frequent guest on the "Unauthorized History of the Pacific War," "Drachinifel," "WW2TV," "History Undone," and other YouTube channels.

https://www.1942book.com/

Jon's previous appearances on WW2TV

Percival and Yamashita - Malaya and Singapore 1942

https://youtube.com/live/TsIdy1J52dw

1942 Q & A show

https://youtube.com/live/0N60TcBf64s

Pearl Harbor: The Fuel Tanks Were Never In Danger. A 12 Myths show

https://youtube.com/live/GcIIMGnqAg8

El Alamein: If you still can't do combined arms, at least use a lot of artillery

https://youtube.com/live/5EDyhjpykPg

The End of the Beginning - Lessons Learned in North Africa, 1942

https://www.youtube.com/live/aDGHr0-svSQ?si=SEtQlA9swo4klcnC

Shattered Sword - the untold story of the Battle of Midway

https://youtube.com/live/WcQhIReFb1s

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