{ "item_title" : "The Fall of France", "item_author" : [" James Whitmore "], "item_description" : "May 10 to June 22, 1940: the six weeks that changed the Second World War.In the spring of 1940, the French army was considered the finest in Europe. It had more tanks than the German army, the most elaborate fortifications ever built, and the British Expeditionary Force at its side. Six weeks later, Paris had fallen, the British had been driven from the continent at Dunkirk, and France had signed an armistice in the same railway carriage where Germany had surrendered in 1918.The Fall of France tells the full story of how it happened: the strange months of the Phoney War, the daring German plan to strike through the forests of the Ardennes, the breakthrough at Sedan, the race to the English Channel, the evacuation from Dunkirk, and the final battles of June that most accounts leave out. It also separates fact from legend, showing why France did not lose for lack of tanks or courage, why the Maginot Line was not the reason for defeat, and why the German victory was a gamble that could have failed.Inside this book, you will discover: How Germany planned the attack, and why the Allies walked into the trapThe truth about the Maginot LineThe crossing of the Meuse at Sedan, the turning point of the campaignThe race to the Channel and the Allied counterattacks that came too lateDunkirk and the escape of the British armyThe fall of Paris and the armistice at CompiègneWas Blitzkrieg really the secret of the German victory?How the fall of France changed the course of the warClear, carefully researched, and written for general readers, this book explains not only what happened in France in 1940, but why it happened, and why it still matters.Part of James Whitmore's series on the Second World War.", "item_img_path" : "https://covers3.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/9/79/816/216/9798162162674_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "14.99", "online_price" : "14.99", "our_price" : "14.99", "club_price" : "14.99", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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