2015, ISBN: 9781591140320

UK: Pen & Sword, 2011. As a result of the capture of British secret code books, Nazis were able to de-cypher Admiralty convoy plans with deadly effect in 1940. An authoritative accoun… Mehr…

UK: Pen & Sword, 2011. As a result of the capture of British secret code books, Nazis were able to de-cypher Admiralty convoy plans with deadly effect in 1940. An authoritative account of the Battle of the Atlantic. 192 pages. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 6 1/4 x 9 1/2 ''., Pen & Sword, 2011, Barnsley: Leo Cooper, 2003. 1st printing. Fine/Fine dust jacket. viii, 232 p., photos, map, graphs, index, 8vo, Leo Cooper, 2003, London United Kingdom: Atlantic Books, 2015. 457 pages, b&w photos and maps, order of battle, endnotes, select bibliography, index. The German campaign in France and the Low Countries during the summer of 1940 was pivotal to Hitler's ambitions and fundamentally affected the course of the Second World War. In achieving in just six weeks what their fathers had failed to achieve in four years of the First World War, Germany altered the balance of power in Europe at a stroke. Having honed the Blitzkrieg technique in preceding engagements, the German forces provided Hitler with a swift, efficient and decisive military victory over the Allied forces in France. Yet, as Lloyd Clark shows in this enthralling new book, it was far from being a foregone conclusion - Hitler's plan could easily have failed had the enemy been slightly less inept and the Germans been slightly less fortunate. Blitzkrieg will tell the story of the campaign, while highlighting the key technologies, decisions and events that led to German success, and will detail the mistakes, good fortune and chronic weaknesses in their planning process and approach to war fighting. There are also compelling portraits of the officers who played key roles, including Heinz Guderian, Ewin Rommel, Kurt Student, Charles de Gaulle and Bernard Montgomery. Lloyd Clark reveals that far from the being undefeatable, the France 1940 campaign revealed Germany and its armed forces to be highly vulnerable - a fact dismissed by Hitler as he began to plan for his invasion of the Soviet Union - and offers a gripping reassessment of the myths that have built up around one of the Second World War's greatest military victories.. First Edition. Hardcover. New/New., Atlantic Books, 2015, Barnsley, South Yorkshire United Kingdom: Leo Cooper, 2002. 226 pages, b&w photos, bibliography, glossary, index.. First Edition. Hard Cover. New/New., Leo Cooper, 2002, Naval Institute Press. Hardcover. 1591140323 Like New Condition. . Fine., Naval Institute Press<

ISBN: 1591140323

[SR: 740281], Hardcover, [EAN: 9781591140320], Naval Institute Press, Naval Institute Press, Book, [PU: Naval Institute Press], Naval Institute Press, Noted naval historian Bernard Irelan… Mehr…

[SR: 740281], Hardcover, [EAN: 9781591140320], Naval Institute Press, Naval Institute Press, Book, [PU: Naval Institute Press], Naval Institute Press, Noted naval historian Bernard Ireland takes a fresh look at the long and bitter struggle waged by the Allies against Nazi U-boats in the Atlantic. After sifting through the evidence--some just recently released--he questions the popular theory that the Allies triumphed by the narrowest of margins. Calling attention to the massive resources the United States brought to bear both at sea and in American shipyards, as well as advances in technology and the breaking of German enigma codes, he argues that the Allied victory was a foregone conclusion. Ireland cites statistics to show that there were relatively few U-boats and that they suffered a relatively high loss rate despite the terror they provoked on the high seas for some five years. With one in three U-boats being sunk on their first patrol toward the end of the war, he also shows that once the Allies had organized an efficient convoy system that system proved to be the nemesis of the U-boat. Far from revisionist history, this is a closely argued work that provides an important reappraisal of well-established views. Its publication coincides with the sixtieth anniversary of the crisis of the battle.s, 5018, Naval, 5011, Military, 9, History, 1000, Subjects, 283155, Books, 5031, World War II, 5011, Military, 9, History, 1000, Subjects, 283155, Books<

2003, ISBN: 9781591140320

Naval Institute Press, 2003-11-01. Hardcover. Used:Good., Naval Institute Press, 2003-11-01

ISBN: 9781591140320

Naval Institute Press. Hardcover. 1591140323 New Condition. . New., Naval Institute Press