Blitzkrieg : myth, reality, and Hitler's lightning war-- France, 1940 / Lloyd Clark.
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D756.5.U8 P756 2019 Utah beach : Tuesday 6th June 1944 / | D757 B37 1989 Hitler's generals / | D757 C28 2001 Servants of evil : new first-hand accounts of the Second World War from survivors of Hitler's armed forces / | D757 .C623 2016 Blitzkrieg : myth, reality, and Hitler's lightning war-- France, 1940 / | D757 .C623 2016 Blitzkrieg : myth, reality, and Hitler's lightning war-- France, 1940 / | D757 D45 1980 Blitzkrieg : from the rise of Hitler to the fall of Dunkirk / | D757 D754 2004 Target America : Hitler's plan to attack the United States / |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 420-436) and index.
Ingredients -- Plans -- Final preparations -- 10 May : forward -- 11-12 May : to the Meuse -- 13 May : crossing the Meuse -- 14-15 May : counter-attacks and exploitation -- 16-20 May : crisis of command and the coast -- 21-24 May : Arras, Weygand and the halt order -- 25 May-4 June : withdrawal and evacuation -- 5-8 June : Fall Rot and resilience -- 9-22 June : driving south, Paris and armistice.
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, sowed chaos, and took Paris, achieving what their fathers 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, 90 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.--Dust jacket.