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The Breaking Point
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A Dangerous Assignment
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Dive Bomber!
A Drop Too Many
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Europe in Flames
Exit Rommel
The Face of Courage
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Hitler's Nemesis
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Mechanized Juggernaut or Military Anachronism?
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Mission 85
Mission 376
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A Soldier in the Cockpit
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Stalin's Keys to Victory
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T-34 in Action
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Twilight of the Gods
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Expendable Warriors
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Street without Joy
Through the Valley
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Carriers in Combat
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Ranger Dawn
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THE BREAKING POINT
Sedan and the Fall of France, 1940
Robert A. Doughty
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Copyright 1990 by Robert A. Doughty
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Doughty, Robert A.
The breaking point : Sedan and the fall of France, 1940 / Robert A. Doughty.
pages cm. (Stackpole military history series)
Originally published: Hamden, Conn. : Archon Books, 1990.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-8117-1459-4
1. Meuse, Battle of the, 1940. 2. Sedan (France)History. I. Title.
D756.5.M4D68 2014
940.54'214312dc23
2014012870
eBook ISBN: 978-0-8117-6070-6
For Georgia Hanes Doughty
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John Lee Doughty, Sr.
Contents
Maps
Foreword