Blitzkrieg: From the Rise of Hitler to the Fall of Dunkirk - Brossura

Deighton, Len

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ISBN 10: 0007531192 ISBN 13: 9780007531196

Casa editrice: William Collins, 2014

Riassunto

A compelling history of Blitzkrieg: the ‘lightning war’ by which Hitler and his generals overwhelmed the Allied armies in Western Europe.

‘Blitzkrieg’ begins with a chilling portrait of Hitler’s rise to power in pre-war Germany, setting the stage for the outbreak of the Second World War and his conquests of Poland and Norway. This riveting history sets out clearly the tactical thinking behind Blitzkrieg and focuses an expert’s eye on the materiel – pre-eminently the Panzer tank – that made it possible. Concluding with a compelling account of the campaigns that drove the German armies through the Low Countries and into France, Deighton reveals the Führer’s ‘fatal flaw’, which made possible the evacuation of Allied forces from Dunkirk.

‘Blitzkrieg’ is the story of Hitler’s triumph and Europe’s darkest hour. Few writers have understood it as well as Deighton – an ex-RAF pilot – and perhaps none has been able to describe it so tellingly.

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Recensione:

‘What Mr Deighton did for the Battle of Britain in Fighter he had done for the land-war here .... A rattlingly good yarn’ Guardian

‘Deighton has a desire, unobtrusive but inflexible, to see the truth ... Blitzkrieg is full of insights, quietly expressed but as a rule uncomfortably true’ Financial Times

‘Contains some gems of research and some arresting conclusions’ New Statesman

L'autore:

Born in London, Len Deighton served in the RAF before graduating from the Royal College of Art (which recently elected him a Senior Fellow). While in New York City working as a magazine illustrator he began writing his first novel, ‘The Ipcress File’, which was published in 1962. He is now the author of more than thirty books of fiction and non-fiction. At present living in Europe, he has, over the years, lived with his family in ten different countries from Austria to Portugal.

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• Editore: William Collins
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0007531192
• ISBN 13: 9780007531196
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 406