To Lose A Battle Av Alistair Horne

<p><b><i>To Lose a Battle: France 1940</i></b><b> is the final book of Alistair Horne''s trilogy, which includes <i>The Fall of Paris </i>and <i>The Price of Glory</i> and tells the story of the great crises of the rivalry between France and Germany.</b><br><br> In 1940 Hitler sent his troops to execute the Fall of France. A six-week battle with lightning ''blitzkrieg'' warfare and combined operations techniques, the offensive ended the Phony War and sent the French forces reeling as their government fled from occupied Paris. For the Axis, it was a dramatic victory. But how was this spectacular result possible?<br><br> In <i>To Lose a Battle</i> Alistair Horne tells the day-by-day, moment-by-moment story of the battle, sifted from the vast Nazi archives and the fragmentary records of the beaten Allies. Using eye-witness accounts of battle operations and personal memoirs of leading figures on both sides, this book steps far beyond the confines of military accounts to form a major contri