Blitzkrieg : myth, reality, and Hitler's lightning war-- France, 1940

Clark, Lloyd, 1967- author.

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In the spring of 1940, Nazi Germany launched a military offensive in France and the Low Countries that married superb intelligence, the latest military thinking, and new technology. In just six weeks the Nazis outflanked the large French army, sowed chaos, and took Paris, achieving what their fathers had failed to accomplish in all four years of the First World War. The fall of France was a stunning victory. It altered the balance of power in Eur...

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Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945

Lightning war France

World War, 1939-1945 Campaigns France

World War, 1939-1945 Germany

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ISBN:

9780802125132
0802125131

Description:

xx, 457 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 398-436) and index

Contents:

Ingredients
Plans
Final preparations
10 May : forward
11-12 May : to the Meuse
13 May : crossing the Meuse
14-15 May : counter-attacks and exploitation
16-20 May : crisis of command and the coast
21-24 May : Arras, Weygand and the halt order
25 May-4 June : withdrawal and evacuation
5-8 June : Fall Rot and resilience
9-22 June : driving south, Paris and armistice

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1717489

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