THE BLITZKRIEG LEGEND: THE 1940 CAMPAIGN IN THE WEST

Author: Karl-Heinz Frieser and John T. Greenwood

Publisher: Naval Institute Press

Year published: 2005

Pagination: 496pp, 48 b/w photos, 46 colour maps, 16 charts/figures

Condition: Very good in d/w

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An illuminating German perspective on the decisive Blitzkrieg campaign of 1940, this account provides the definitive explanation for the rapid military collapse of France and Britain on the European continent in 1940. In a little over a month, Germany decisively defeated the Allies, a task that had not been achieved in four years of brutal fighting during World War I. First published in 1995 as the official German history of the campaign, the book shows that German victory was not inevitable and Allied defeat was not preordained. It explodes many of the myths concerning German Blitzkrieg warfare and the planning for the 1940 campaign.