To Lose a Battle: France 1940
- ISBN-10
- 0141937726
- ISBN-13
- 9780141937724
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 736
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2007-06-28
- Publisher
- Penguin UK
- Author
- Alistair Horne
Description
In 1940, the German army fought and won an extraordinary battle with France in six weeks of lightning warfare. With the subtlety and compulsion of a novel, Horne’s narrative shifts from minor battlefield incidents to high military and political decisions, stepping far beyond the confines of military history to form a major contribution to our understanding of the crises of the Franco-German rivalry. To Lose a Battle is the third part of the trilogy beginning with The Fall of Paris and continuing with The Price of Glory (already available in Penguin).
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