To Lose a Battle: France, 1940
by HORNE, Alistair
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- Very Good
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
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New York, New York, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Little Brown, 1969. First. hardcover. very good. Illustrated in black and white. xxiv, 647 pages. Thick 8vo, red gilt-stamped cloth with a black spine label. Boston: Little, Brown & Company, (1969). First edition. Spine sunned and a bit loose but overall a very good copy, lacking dust wrapper.<br/> <br/>
Synopsis
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.
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- Bookseller
- Argosy Book Store (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 321570
- Title
- To Lose a Battle: France, 1940
- Author
- HORNE, Alistair
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Publisher
- Little Brown
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1969
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