The fall of France : the Nazi invasion of 1940 /

The fall of France : the Nazi invasion of 1940 /

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Author / Creator:Jackson, Julian.
Imprint:Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2004.
Description:1 online resource (274 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
Language:English
Series:Making of the modern world.
Making of the modern world.
Subject:
World War, 1939-1945 -- France.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- France.
Military campaigns.
France -- History -- German occupation, 1940-1945.
France.
Electronic books.
History.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11152483
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ISBN:9780191516634
0191516635
1280752181
9781280752186
9786610752188
6610752184
0192805509
9780192805508
019280300X
Notes:Originally published: 2003.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Print version record.
Summary:This new book by Julian Jackson, a leading historian of twentieth-century France, charts the breathtakingly rapid events that led to the defeat and surrender of one of the key Allied powers, setting in motion the traumatic years of the Occupation, the Vichy regime, and the rapid escalation of World War Two. - ;On 16 May 1940 an emergency meeting of the French High Command was called at the Quai d'Orsay in Paris. The German army had broken through the French lines on the River Meuse at Sedan and elsewhere, only five days after launching their attack. Churchill, who had been telephoned by Prime.
Other form:Print version: Jackson, Julian. Fall of France. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2004 0192805509 9780192805508

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