Ebook: The Blitzkrieg Legend: the 1940 Campaign in the West

Charts and Maps; Editor's Introduction; Preface; Abbreviations and Translations of Frequently Used Foreign Terms; Introduction: The Miracle of 1940; 1. The Blitzkrieg: Word and Concept; The Word "Blitzkrieg"; The Concept of Blitzkrieg; 2. Blitzkrieg without the Blitzkrieg Concept: The Background of the Campaign in the West; Did Hitler Have a Strategic War Concept?; Was the Polish Campaign a Blitzkrieg?; Did the Time Factor Work for or against the Wehrmacht?; Was There a Blitzkrieg Economy before the Campaign in the West?;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.