WW2aSS is a fine book, indeed.
For one published 22 years ago.
And even those of us who use it know it has significant inaccuracies and omissions.
Specialised sources disagree with its figures in a number of areas - merchant losses and other naval data, for example, are known to be inaccurate and flawed.
Then, of course, the books I cited are examples of more recent scholarship as well as looking beneath and beyond the figures ...
Tooze, "Wages of Destruction", 2007. The entire economy of Nazi Germany from go to whoa, its problems and limitations and why it couldn't win the war it actually fought.
Maiolo, "Cry Havoc", 2010. The economic realities behind the war plans of all the major powers and why the Germans did so well initially, but were incapable of sustaining their initial faux lead.
Miller, "U-Boats [etc.]", 2007. A comprehensive examination of the U-Boats and up to date Merchant loss figures.
Glantz, "Colossus Reborn: The Red Army at War", 2005. A companion to Stumbling Colossus, more Soviet era lies exposed.
Overy, "The Bombing War", 2013. A classic by an acknowledged expert on the topic. Not everything the coffee table books tell you is, in fact, the actual truth - as Overy reveals.
Kershaw, "Fateful Choices", 2008. Examination of key decision points during WW2, not all involving the US.
Burleigh, "Moral Combat: Good and Evil in World War II", 2012. The moral underpinnings of why the allies won ... and, equally, the immorality that was at the basis of the Axis loss. And, yes, morality had a heck of a lot more to do with both than you might think at first.
And some, while older, look beneath and beyond the figures ...
Barber and Harrison, "The Soviet Home Front, 1941-5: a Social and Economic History of the USSR in World War II", 1991. Details of Soviet lies, damn lies, and statistics ... and there is a lot more in later works by the pair, individually and severally.
Overy, "Russia's War: Blood on the Snow", 1997. One of the earliest books using post-glasnost access to secret Soviet sources, and good, if dated, revelation of more Soviet era lies.
Overy, "Why the Allies Won", 1997. And not all of the reasons have to do with active US entry, believe it or not!
Glantz & House, "When Titans Clashed: How the Red Army Stopped Hitler", 1995. More information about Soviet era lies and a good history of the War in the East from a Soviet PoV.
Glantz, "Stumbling Colossus: The Red Army on the Eve of World War 2", 1998. More on Soviet era lies and the problems the Soviets faced at the beginning of the war.
There are many more, some of which offer snippets and some which are more substantive.
All of the above have information that either supports the thesis I presented or answers questions you asked or refutes claims that you made.
I won't even bother with the technical books on Warships, Combat and other Aircraft and Combat and other vehicles, as they are legion. And many of them differentiate between Combat Range and Combat Radius.
Phil
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