The Fall Of France: Nazi Invasion 1940 Julian Jackson Oxford University Press Αγγλικά Βιβλία History World

On 16 May 1940 An Emergency Meeting Of The French High Command Was Called At Quai D\ Orsay In Paris German Army Had Broken Through Lines River Meuse Sedan And Elsewhere Only Five Days After Launching Their Attack Churchill Who Been Telephoned By Prime Minister Reynaud Previous Evening To Be Told That Were Beaten Rushed Meet Leaders Mood One Panic Despair There Talk Evacuating Asked Gamelin Commander Chief \ Where Is Strategic Reserve?\ None Replied This Exciting Book Julian Jackson A Leading Historian Twentieth-Century France Charts Breathtakingly Rapid Events Led Defeat Surrender Greatest Bastions Western Allies Thus Dramatic New Phase Second World War Search For Scapegoats Most Humiliating Military Disaster History Began Almost Once: Miscalculations Blame Or Indictment Entire Nation? Using Eyewitness Accounts Memoirs Diaries Recreates Gripping Detail Intense Atmosphere These Six Weeks Unravelling Historical Evidence Produce Fresh Answer Perennial Question Whether Fall Inevitable Σελίδες: 296 Διαστάσεις: 13 8X13 8Cm