Breaking Point - Sedan and the Fall of France, 1940

Informationen zum Autor Brig. Gen. Robert A. Doughty, USA (Ret.), is a graduate of West Point, former chair of its history department, and a prize-winning military historian. He is the author of Pyrrhic Victory: French Strategy and Operations in the Great War. He lives in Louisiana. Klappentext An engaging narrative of the small-unit actions near Sedan during the 1940 campaign for FranceReconstructs the fighting in and around Sedan by German panzer forces under the famous Heinz Guderian and their French opponentsExamines both sides of the battle, from privates up to generalsRecommended 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 Zusammenfassung The French city of Sedan, located near the Belgian border, played a key role in Germany’s plans for a blitzkrieg assault on Allied forces in France.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Robert A Doughty, Robert A. Doughty, Robert Allan Doughty
• Verlag: Stackpole Books
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 01.09.2014
• EAN: 9780811714594
• ISBN: 978-0-8117-1459-4
• Seiten: 400
• Serie: Stackpole Military History
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte > 20. Jahrhundert (bis 1945); Sachbuch > Geschichte > Sonstiges