To Lose a Battle by Alistair Horne

To Lose a Battle by Alistair Horne

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.

Alistair Horne has eighteen books to his credit. He is a student at St. Oxford's Antony's College Horne received the French Legion d'Honneur in 1993 and a knighthood in 2003 for his contributions to French history.

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ISBN 13	9780140050424
ISBN 10	0140050426
Title	To Lose a Battle
Author	Horne Alistair
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Penguin Books Ltd
Year published	1979-06-28
Number of pages	704
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