Never underestimate Germany's sheer paranoia, though for attack was also the Third Reich's deluded, defensive way of vanquishing its enemies close by and within. World domination? 'Germany's economic resources were never adequate to turn these fantasies into reality, not even when the resources of a large part of Europe were added to them.' The dream could never have come true.
Once surprise had banished inertia and Britain had avoided defeat in 1940, the Allies were virtually inevitable victors and Hitler as military leader was a fantasist in thrall to his own illusions. It's far rarer to have the practical situation clinically analysed, to see how the Reich - in weaponry, manpower, strength and resilience - was always overmatched. We're used to other pens portraying 1939-45 as a titanic battle for survival between evenly matched forces, an equal struggle we almost lost.
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