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Blitzkrieg : myth, reality, and Hitler's lightning war : France, 1940 / Lloyd Clark.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Clark, Lloyd, 1967- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945.
- Hitler, Adolf.
- World War, 1939-1945--Germany.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--France.
- Lightning war--France.
- Lightning war.
- Military campaigns.
- France.
- Germany.
- Physical Description:
- xx, 457 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Atlantic Monthly Press, 2016.
- Summary:
- "A leading military historian from the UK presents a controversial reassessment of the infamous German warfare tactic and its role in the fall of France to the Nazis in 1940, arguing that better Allied competence may have prevented German success,"--NoveList.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 420-436) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780802125132
- 0802125131
- OCLC:
- 939426687
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