Superb volume . . . astounding collection of
photographs, maps and diagrams and detached text.
This book is a classic.
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Jean Paul Pallud, author of the highly acclaimed The Battle of the Bulge Then and Now, presents — for the first time through comparison 'then and now' photographs — a detailed account of the Battle of France: the forty-five traumatic days from May 10 to June 24, 1940 that resulted in one of the most remarkable military victories of modern times. During those six weeks, six nations found themselves at war, fighting across four countries. From the polders of the Netherlands in the north to the mountains of the Alps in the south, and from the Rhine valley to the Atlantic coast, Jean Paul Pallud explores every corner of the battlefield, the camera recording the scenes today where fifty years ago Dutch, Belgian, German, French, British and Italian soldiers were locked in mortal combat. Battles great and small are described and illustrated to colour the canvas of both the broad strategy and the individual firefight in Hitler's victorious campaign of Blitzkrieg in the West.
ISBN 0 900913 68
SIZE 12"×8½"
640 PAGES
1880
PHOTOS
HARDBACK
£44.95
CODE F023
Peace for our time
The Allies and Poland
France's Sarre Offensive
The Maginot Line
The Allied strategy
Belgium sits on the fence
Plan 'Dyle'
The BEF lands
The German strategy
The opposing forces
Code-word 'Danzig'
The Brandenburg operations
The swoop on Fort Eben-Emael
Airborne assaults in the Ardennes
The Allies move forward
The Fight for the Netherlands
The 6. Armee in Belgium: the feint
The 4. Armee on the Meuse
The 12. Armee on the Meuse
The XV. Armeekorps and the 9ème Armée
Gruppe von Kleist and the 2ème Armée
The end of the 9ème Armée
Sichelschnitt
Enlarging the breach
Thulin
The 4ème D.C.R: threat from the south
Gort favours evacuation
The Weygand Plan
Belgian Forts
The 7ème Armée on the Somme
The Abbeville bridgehead
The final withdrawal
The BEF withdrawal to the coast
Dunkirk: the evacuation
The two alternatives
The 4. Armee from the Somme to the Seine
The 6. Armee from the Somme to the Marne
The 12. Armee on the Aisne
The Defeat
Heeresgruppe B from the Seine to the Loire
Gruppe Guderian closes the ring
Heeresgruppe C attacks the Maginot Line
Reynaud plays his last cards
The Battle of the Fortresses
The end in the Vosges
The Final Evacuation
The Alpine Front
The Last Act
The Armistice
The end of the Maginot Line
Counting the cost
Glossary