Memorial of the Battle of France — Volume 2, from 5 to 25 June 1940
Memorial of the Battle of France — Volume 2, from 5 to 25 June 1940

Memorial of the Battle of France - Volume 2, From 22 May to 4 June 1940

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May–June 1940. An ill-fated battle lost in forty-five days. Everything has been said, or nearly so, about those forty-five days — whether through general works covering all or part of the period, or monographs addressing particular aspects of the battle.


 

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Yet no work has ever addressed the entirety of the fighting day by day, sector by sector, from Holland to Menton, with such precision. Forty-five days of combat are recounted — the most emblematic to be sure, but also those, far more numerous, that few accounts have to date rescued from oblivion, when they have not simply been ignored.
It is the daily drama of these men overtaken by the tempo of battle, tossed about at the mercy of high command, and of whom so many went to the utmost sacrifice, that these two volumes set out to recount. A different and entirely fresh perspective on a lost battle. The Memorial of the Battle of France…
For more than 40 years, Jean-Yves MARY has been passionately engaged with the events of May–June 1940. First through the Maginot Line, of which he has become one of the leading specialists through several reference works and through the creation, begun as early as 1978, of the museum of the Maginot Line and interval troops at the Fermont site. Then through the meticulous study of the various breakthroughs carried out by the Germans during those two tragic months, studies that resulted in the publication of several thoroughly documented works on the lightning advance of the Panzerdivisionen.
A body of knowledge accumulated over the years that drove the author to take on this ambitious project…

Author 1
Jean Yves Mary
Publication date
April 2017
Pages
400
Language
French
Publisher
HEIMDAL

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