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Germany and the Axis Powers: From Coalition to Collapse. By Richard L. DiNardo. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2005. ISBN 0-7006-1412-5. Maps. Photographs. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Pp. xiv, 282. $34.95.
The title encapsulates the content well. This is not a book about German puppets. The author cuts to the core of his subject by focusing only on those Axis countries with sufficient weight and independence to merit the description "power" and therefore to require some degree of German accommodation with their national interests-Italy, Romania, Finland, and Hungary. He then studies their bilateral military relationships with Germany (there being no other significant military relationships within the Axis) and drops each in turn as it declines to puppet status or defects. As a result, the period covered most intensively begins with Italy's entry into the war in...