Name: Blitzkrieg: Myth, Reality, and Hitler’S Lightning War: France 1940
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Author: Lloyd Clark
ISBN: 9780802127211

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Blitzkrieg: Myth, Reality, and Hitler’S Lightning War: France 1940

Type

Physical Book

Publisher

Grove Press

Author

Lloyd Clark

Year

2017

Language

English

Pages

480

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9780802127211

Synopsis "Blitzkrieg: Myth, Reality, and Hitler’S Lightning War: France 1940 "

In the spring of 1940, Nazi Germany launched a military offensive in France and the Low Countries that married superb intelligence, the latest military thinking, and new technology. In just six weeks the Nazis outflanked the large French army, sewed chaos, and took Paris, achieving what the Germans had failed to accomplish in all four years of the First World War. The Fall of France was a stunning victory. It altered the balance of power in Europe in one stroke and convinced the entire world that the Nazi war machine was unstoppable.But as Lloyd Clark, a leading British military historian and academic, argues in Blitzkrieg, much of our understanding of this victory, and blitzkrieg itself, is based on myth.The tactic was not really new, and far from being a forgone victory, Hitler’s invasion was incredibly risky and could easily have failed had the Allies been even slightly less inept or the Germans less fortunate. And while speed and mechanization were essential, ninety percent of Germany’s ground forces were still reliant on horses, bicycles, and their own feet for transportation. Their surprise victory proved the apex of their achievement; far from being undefeatable, Clark argues, the campaign revealed Germany’s vulnerabilities, lessons not learned by Hitler as he began to plan for the invasion of the Soviet Union. A definitive history of the events of 1940, Blitzkrieg is Lloyd Clark at his best.

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