Ebook: The Blitzkrieg Legend : the 1940 Campaign in the West
Author: Karl-Heinz Frieser
- Tags: Lightning war., World War 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Western Front., World War 1939-1945.
- Year: 2013
- Publisher: Naval Institute Press
- City: Annopolis
- Language: English
- epub
Here, for the first time in English, is an illuminating new German perspective on the decisive Blitzkrieg campaign of 1940. Karl-Heinz Frieser's account provides the definitive explanation for Germany's startling success and the equally surprising and rapid military collapse of France and Britain on the European continent. In a little over a month, Germany decisively defeated the Allies in battle, a task that hadRead more...
Abstract: Here, for the first time in English, is an illuminating new German perspective on the decisive Blitzkrieg campaign of 1940. Karl-Heinz Frieser's account provides the definitive explanation for Germany's startling success and the equally surprising and rapid military collapse of France and Britain on the European continent. In a little over a month, Germany decisively defeated the Allies in battle, 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 1940 campaign in the west, the book go