Germany and the Second World War
book series
Germany and the Second World War (German: Das Deutsche Reich und der Zweite Weltkrieg) is a 12,000-page, 13-volume work published by the Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt (DVA), that took academics from the German Armed Forces Military History Research Office 30 years (1978-2008) to complete. The Clarendon Press began publishing the English translation in 1990, but the series was last added to in 2017 and no publication date has yet been announced for the final two.
Contents
Germany and the Second World War is the English translation of the series, which Clarendon Press (an imprint of Oxford University Press) began publishing in 1990. By 2017, 11 of the 13 parts had been published at a rate of one every two-to-three years; but the final two parts, Volumes X/I and X/II, are still awaited, with no publication date announced, following the death of the main translation editor.
In the following table, the publication dates of the final two parts are yet to be announced by Oxford University Press. Their titles and number of pages are based on the German volumes and may change.
Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Germany and the Second World War” is book series. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Germany, Second and World, not as a finished interpretation.
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Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 6, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q836776. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1978, 2008, 1990 and 2017.
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