| To Lose a Battle: France 1940 Contributor(s): Horne, Alistair (Author) |
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ISBN: 0141030658 ISBN-13: 9780141030654 Publisher: Penguin Books
WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guarantee Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: December 2007 Annotation: During six weeks in 1940, Hitlers blitzkrieg shattered the redoubtable Maginot Line and, shortly thereafter, the French army. No historian has written a more definitive chronicle of that disaster than Alistair Horne, or one so emotionally gripping. Moving with cinematic swiftness from the battlefield to the Reichstag and the Palais de l...lyse, "To Lose a Battle" overspills the confines of traditional military history to become a portrait of the French national soul in its darkest night. |
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| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Military - World War Ii - History | Europe - France - History | Modern - 20th Century |
| Dewey: 940.534 |
| Age Level: 18-UP |
| Grade Level: 13-UP |
| Physical Information: 1.24" H x 5.5" W x 7.1" L (1.12 lbs) 736 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1940's - Cultural Region - French |
| Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps, Price on Product, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents |
| Review Citations: Library Journal 12/15/2007 pg. 171 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: To Lose a Battle: France 1940 is the final book of Alistair Horne's trilogy, which includes The Fall of Paris and The Price of Glory and tells the story of the great crises of the rivalry between France and Germany. In 1940 Hitler sent his troops to execute the Fall of France. A six-week battle with lightning 'blitzkrieg' warfare and combined operations techniques, the offensive ended the Phony War and sent the French forces reeling as their government fled from occupied Paris. For the Axis, it was a dramatic victory. But how was this spectacular result possible? In To Lose a Battle Alistair Horne tells the day-by-day, moment-by-moment story of the battle, sifted from the vast Nazi archives and the fragmentary records of the beaten Allies. Using eye-witness accounts of battle operations and personal memoirs of leading figures on both sides, this book steps far beyond the confines of military accounts to form a major contribution to our understanding of this important period in European history. 'Alistair Horne really brings home the pathos and human folly of war, and he writes brilliantly' The Times 'Horne follows his line unfalteringly. All the details are there: the small, fleeting triumphs, the greater disasters, the bravery, the cowardice, the stupidity and the intelligence ... that make war so fascinating and so terrible' Economist 'Horne completes his masterly trilogy ... the definitive account of one of the most efficient and astonishing campaigns of all time' The Times Literary Supplement One of Britain's greatest historians, Sir Alistair Horne, CBE, is the author of a trilogy on the rivalry between France and Germany, The Price of Glory, The Fall of Paris and To Lose a Battle, as well as a two-volume life of Harold Macmillan. |
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