Blitzkrieg

The German campaign in France during the summer of 1940 was pivotal to Hitler''s ambitions and fundamentally affected the course of the Second World War. Having squabbled about fighting methods ri ...

The German campaign in France during the summer of 1940 was pivotal to Hitler''s ambitions and fundamentally affected the course of the Second World War. Having squabbled about fighting methods right up to the start of the campaign, the German forces provided the Führer with a swift, efficient and decisive military victory over the Allied forces.In achieving in just six weeks what their fathers had failed to accomplish during the four years of the First World War, Germany altered the balance of power in Europe at a stroke. Yet, as Lloyd Clark shows in this enthralling new book, it was far from