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Genre/Form: | History Military history |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Horne, Alistair. To lose a battle; France 1940. Boston, Little, Brown [1969] (OCoLC)563545396 |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Alistair Horne |
OCLC Number: | 5258 |
Description: | xxiv, 647 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Grandeur and misery of victory (1919-1930) -- Thank God for the French army -- Fortune changes sides -- Palinurus nods -- Queer kind of war -- Gamelin -- The sickle and the reaper -- Towards the brink -- The Crocus blossoms -- Through the Ardennes: May 11th -- On the Meuse: May 12th -- The crossing: May 13th -- Consolidating the bridgeheads: May 14th -- The breakout: May 15th -- "We have lost the battle!": May 16th -- The Panzers halt: May 17th -- The dash to the sea: May 18th-20th -- Encirclement: May 21st-23rd -- The end in the North: May 24th-June 4th -- One last battle: June 5th-22nd -- Aftermath. |
Other Titles: | France 1940 |
Responsibility: | by Alistair Horne. |
Abstract:
Third volume in a trilogy; the first of which is The fall of Paris; the siege and the Commune, 1870-71; and the second of which is The price of glory; Verdun 1916.
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