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To lose a battle : France 1940 / by Alistair Horne.

By: Material type: TextPublisher: Boston : Little, Brown, and Company, [1969]Edition: First editionDescription: xxiv, 647 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
Other title:
  • France 1940
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Online version:: To lose a battle; France 1940.LOC classification:
  • D761 .H69
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.
Summary: 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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Includes bibliographical references (pages 601-606) and index.

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.

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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