Alistair Horne
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'...lysÃ©e, ,To Lose a Battle, overspills the confines of traditional military history to become a portrait of the French national soul in its darkest night.
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To Lose a Battle: France 1940