Author: Julian Jackson
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780192805508
Size: 52.85 MB
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 274
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On 16 May 1940 an emergency meeting of the French High Command was called at the Quai d'Orsay in Paris. The German army had broken through the French lines on the River Meuse at Sedan and elsewhere, only five days after launching their attack. Churchill, who had been telephoned by Prime Minister Reynaud the previous evening to be told that the French were beaten, rushed to Paris to meet the French leaders. The mood in the meeting was one of panic and despair; there was talk ofevacuating Paris. Churchill asked Gamelin, the French Commander in Chief, 'Where is the strategic reserve?' 'There is none,' replied Gamelin.This exciting book by Julian Jackson, a leading historian of twentieth-century France, charts the breathtakingly rapid events that led to the defeat and surrender of one of the greatest bastions of the Western Allies, and thus to a dramatic new phase of the Second World War. The search for scapegoats for the most humiliating military disaster in French history began almost at once: were miscalculations by military leaders to blame, or was this an indictment of an entire nation?Using eyewitness accounts, memoirs, and diaries, Julian Jackson recreates, in gripping detail, the intense atmosphere and dramatic events of these six weeks in 1940, unravelling the historical evidence to produce a fresh answer to the perennial question of whether the fall of France was inevitable.
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Author: Michael V. Leggiere
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521875420
Size: 31.67 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 706
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"First complete English-language account of the invasion of Napoleonic France in 1813?1814 -- Utilizes both public and private archival material from France, Germany, and Austria -- Will expand Gordon Craig?s noteworthy treatise on the problems of coalition warfare" -- publisher website (December 2007).
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Author: Robert A. Doughty
Publisher: Stackpole Books
ISBN: 0811714594
Size: 67.93 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 416
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An engaging narrative of the small-unit actions near Sedan during the 1940 campaign for France. • Reconstructs the fighting in and around Sedan by German panzer forces under the famous Heinz Guderian and their French opponents • Examines both sides of the battle, from privates up to generals • Recommended reading by the U.S. Army and U.S. Marine Corps "Doughty's lively study should appeal to soldiers and civilians."—Journal of Military History
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Author: Edward Gibbon
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Category : Byzantine Empire
Languages : en
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Author: Winston Churchill
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Size: 29.40 MB
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Languages : en
Pages : 281
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Author: Archibald Alison
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Size: 61.78 MB
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Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages :
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Author: Archibald Alison
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Size: 52.44 MB
Format: PDF
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Languages : en
Pages : 319
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Author: François Pierre G. Guizot
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Author: Thomas Henry Dyer
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Size: 65.71 MB
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Category : Europe
Languages : en
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Author: George MILLER (D.D.)
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Size: 71.83 MB
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