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基本説明
New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2000. A dramatic new interpretation of Germany's lightning attack that swept the Wehrmacht to Paris in the spring of 1940.
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Why did Hitler turn against France in the spring of 1940 and not before? And why were his poor judgement and inadequate intelligence about the Allies nonetheless correct? Why didn't France take the offensive earlier, when it might have led to victory? What explains the French failure to detect and respond to Germany's attack plan? "Strange Victory" is a riveting book about France and Germany in the years leading up to World War II, offering a dramatic new interpretation of the German lightning attack that swept the Wehrmacht to Paris in the spring of 1940. Skilfully weaving together decisions of the high commands with the confused responses from exhausted and ill-informed, or ill-advised, officers in the field, the distinguished diplomatic historian Ernest R. May offers many new insights into the tragic paradoxes of the battle for France. "Strange Victory" is a book of lasting importance to our understanding of WorldWar II, and its effect on both the German and the Allied sides.
Contents
Contents
Introduction
PART ONE: HITLER'S GERMANY
Orders
Honeymoon
Rifts
Conflict
Clashes
War!
Hitler
PART TWO: THE WESTERN ALLIES
Daladier
Gamelin
Cross-Currents
To Munich
Chamberlain
Enough!
Accepting War
PART THREE: PLAN YELLOW
Now France?
Not Defeat?
Intelligence
Gamble
PART FOUR: THE DEMOCRACIES' PREPARATIONS FOR VICTORY
War but Not War
"The Bore War"
The Dyle-Breda Plan
Distractions
Stumbles
Intelligence Failure
The Reasons Why
The Dam Breaks
PART FIVE: THE WAR - A PARABLE?
Battle!
"Hitch" at Sedan
Plan Yellow Plays Out
France Falls
Conclusion: Why? And What Can be Learned?
Appendix: Tables and Figures
Notes
Bibliography
Acknowledgements
Index
