To Lose a Battle: France 1940 by Horne, Alistair Paperback Penguin Books. Condition is "Very Good". Shipped with USPS Media Mail.

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Paperback

Published September 27th 1979 by Penguin Books (first published January 1st 1969

ISBN 0140050426 (ISBN13: 9780140050424)

Edition language English

Original title To Lose a Battle: France 1940

Characters Maxime Weygand, Maurice Gamelin

During six weeks in 1940, Hitler's blitzkrieg shattered the redoubtable Maginot Line and, shortly thereafter, the French army. No historian has written a more definitive chronicle of that disaster than Alistair Horne, or one so emotionally gripping. Moving with cinematic swiftness from the battlefield to the Reichstag and the Palais de l'...lysée, To Lose a Battle overspills the confines of traditional military history to become a portrait of the French national soul in its darkest night.

Sir Alistair Allan Horne was an English journalist, biographer and historian of Europe, especially of 19th and 20th century France. He wrote more than 20 books on travel, history, and biography. He won the following awards: Hawthornden Prize, 1963, for The Price of Glory; Yorkshire Post Book of the Year Prize and Wolfson Literary Award, both 1978, both for A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954-1962; French Légion d'Honneur, 1993, for work on French history;and Commander of the British Empire (CBE), 2003.

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History Military > Military History War > World War II Nonfiction Cultural > France War > Military Fiction War History > European History Cultural > Germany Literature > 20th Century