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Blitzkrieg - Myth, Reality and Hitler's Lightning War - France, 1940 (Paperback, Main)
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Blitzkrieg - Myth, Reality and Hitler's Lightning War - France, 1940 (Paperback, Main)
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Loot Price R329
Discovery Miles 3 290
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The German campaign in France during the summer of 1940 was pivotal
to Hitler's ambitions and fundamentally affected the course of the
Second World War. Having squabbled about fighting methods right up
to the start of the campaign, the German forces provided the Fuhrer
with a swift, efficient and decisive military victory over the
Allied forces. In achieving in just six weeks what their fathers
had failed to accomplish during the four years of the First World
War, Germany altered the balance of power in Europe at a stroke.
Yet, as Lloyd Clark shows in this enthralling new book, it was far
from a foregone conclusion. Blitzkrieg tells the story of the
campaign, while highlighting the key technologies, decisions and
events that led to German success, and details the mistakes, good
fortune and chronic weaknesses in their planning process and
approach to war fighting. There are also compelling portraits of
the officers who played key roles, including Heinz Guderian, Erwin
Rommel, Kurt Student, Charles de Gaulle and Bernard Montgomery.
Clark argues that far from being undefeatable, the France 1940
campaign revealed Germany and its armed forces to be highly
vulnerable - a fact dismissed by Hitler as he began to plan for his
invasion of the Soviet Union - and offers a gripping reassessment
of the myths that have built up around one of the Second World
War's greatest military victories.
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