Strange Victory: Hitler's Conquest of France - Softcover

May, Prof. Ernest R.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0809088541 ISBN 13: 9780809088546

Verlag: Hill and Wang, 2001

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Strange Victory is a riveting book about France and Germany in the years leading up to World War II. Why did Hitler turn against France in the Spring of 1940 and not before? And why were his poor judgement and inadequate intelligence about the Allies nonetheless correct? Why didn't France take the offensive earlier, when it might have led to victory? What explains France's failure to detect and respond to Germany's attack plan?

Skillfully weaving together decisions of the high commands with the confused responses from exhausted and ill-informed, or ill-advised, officers in the field, the distinguished diplomatic historian Ernest R. May offers many new insights into the tragic paradoxes of the battle for France.

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Ernest R. May is Charles Warren Professor of American History at Harvard University and the author or co-author of eighteen books. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with his wife, Susan B. Wood.

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• Verlag: Hill and Wang
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0809088541
• ISBN 13: 9780809088546
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 608
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