The Collapse of the Third Republic: An Inquiry Into the Fall of France in 1940After setting the stage with a look at the founding of the Republic in 1871, describes the political, social, and religious divisions in the country, the "Maginot Line complex" growing out of military trust in a defensive war, and the deleterious effect of the tragedy of World War I. |
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Page 81
... offensive from the very start of hostilities . They preached the offensive à outrance , the attaque brusquée , ending up with the bayonet charge . They never tired of reiterating the dictum of the brilliant theorist Colonel Ardant du ...
... offensive from the very start of hostilities . They preached the offensive à outrance , the attaque brusquée , ending up with the bayonet charge . They never tired of reiterating the dictum of the brilliant theorist Colonel Ardant du ...
Page 122
... offensive through Belgium and proposing that it be met by a French army of one million men dug in along a line between Verdun and Antwerp and running through Namur on the Meuse . This was anathema to his fellow generals for two reasons ...
... offensive through Belgium and proposing that it be met by a French army of one million men dug in along a line between Verdun and Antwerp and running through Namur on the Meuse . This was anathema to his fellow generals for two reasons ...
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... offensive with the bulk of my forces by the fifteenth day after mobilization . It has been impossible for me to do more.1 * This incredible reply reveals more than we have yet learned of the generalissimo of the French armies . For the ...
... offensive with the bulk of my forces by the fifteenth day after mobilization . It has been impossible for me to do more.1 * This incredible reply reveals more than we have yet learned of the generalissimo of the French armies . For the ...
Contents
Foreword | 11 |
Debacle Summer 1940 | 21 |
BOOK ONE THE RISE OF | 33 |
Copyright | |
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Action Française agreed Air Force Allied Ambassador armistice armored divisions artillery asked attack August battle Baudouin began Belgian Belgium Berlin Blum Bonnet Bordeaux Britain British government called Chamber Chamberlain Chautemps Churchill Colonel Commander in Chief Communist Corps counterattack Czechoslovakia Czechs Daladier Darlan declared defense deputies Dreyfus enemy fight Flandin Foreign Minister Foreign Office France French Army French First Army French government frontier Fuehrer Gamelin Gaulle generalissimo Georges Georges Bonnet German High Command Hitler Huntziger infantry June later Laval leaders Lebrun Léon Blum London Maginot Line March Marshal Pétain ment Meuse military morning Moscow Munich Mussolini nation Nazi night Ninth Army offensive panzer divisions Paris Parliament Parliamentary Party Paul Reynaud peace planes Poland political Popular Front Premier President Prime Minister proposal replied Reynaud Rhineland Russia says seemed Senate September Socialist Soviet Staff talks tanks telephone Third Republic told troops Weygand
References to this book
Strategy Without Slide-rule: British Air Strategy, 1914-1939 Barry D. Powers No preview available - 1976 |