How the War Was Won provides the statistical evidence that industrial production and logistical power were what won World War II. It argues that Allied air and sea power were ultimately more important than the land campaigns that dominate popular memory.
Much of the romance of the war centers on the Eastern Front, its battles, and its tanks. But the war was ultimately won because the United States and its allies could produce, supply, train for, and replace aircraft and ships on a scale the Axis powers could not match.