To Lose A Battle: France 1940

During six weeks in 1940, Hitler's 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'...lysée, To Lose a Battle overspills the confines of traditional military history to become a portrait of the French national soul in its darkest night.

Michael Rogers - Library Journal

This third volume in Horne's war trilogy (with The Fall of Paris: The Siege and the Commune, 1870-71and The Price of Glory: Verdun 1919) provides a day-by-day and blow-by-blow account of the German army's six-week battle to decimate the French government and seize the country.

Author : Alistair Horne

Publisher : Penguin Books

Published Year : 2007

Edition : Reprint

Format : Paperback, 736 pages

Dimensions : 5.16 (w) x 7.90 (h) x 1.31 (d)

ISBN : 0141030658

ISBN13 : 9780141030654

Overview :

During six weeks in 1940, Hitler's 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'...lysée, To Lose a Battle overspills the confines of traditional military history to become a portrait of the French national soul in its darkest night.