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In the spring of 1940, the Germans launched a military offensive in France and the Low Countries that married superb intelligence, the latest military thinking, and new technology to achieve in just six weeks what their fathers had failed to achieve in all four years of the First World War. It was a stunning victory, altering the balance of power in Europe in one stroke, and convinced the entire world that the Nazi war machine was unstoppable.
But as Lloyd Clark, a leading British military historian and academic, argues in Blitzkrieg, much of our understanding of this victory, and blitzkrieg itself, is based on myth. Far from being a foregone conclusion, Hitlers plan could easily have failed had the Allies been even slightly less inept or the Germans less fortunate. The Germans recognized that success depended not only on surprise, but on avoiding being drawn into a protracted struggle for which they were not prepared. And while speed was essential, 90% of Germanys...
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Also by Lloyd Clark
The Battle of the Tanks: Kursk, 1943
Crossing the Rhine: Breaking into Nazi Germany 1944 and 1945
Anzio: Italy and the Battle for Rome1944
Myth, Reality, and Hitlers Lightning WarFrance, 1940
Copyright Lloyd Clark 2016
Cover design by Gretchen Mergenthaler
Cover photograph: WWII Stuka (Hans Schaller), 1940. AKG images
Author photo Adam Hollier
First published in hardback in Great Britain in 2016 by Atlantic Books, an imprint of Atlantic Books Ltd.
The moral right of Lloyd Clark to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act of 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without permission in writing from the publisher, except by a reviewer, who may quote brief passages in a review. Scanning, uploading, and electronic distribution of this book or the facilitation of such without the permission of the publisher is prohibited. Please purchase only authorized electronic editions, and do not participate in or encourage electronic piracy of copyrighted materials. Your support of the authors rights is appreciated. Any member of educational institutions wishing to photocopy part or all of the work for classroom use, or anthology, should send inquiries to Grove Atlantic, 154 West 14th Street, New York, NY 10011 or .
First published by Grove Atlantic, September 2016
Published simultaneously in Canada
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ISBN 978-0-8021-2513-2
eISBN 978-0-8021-9034-5
Atlantic Monthly Press
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For my parents John and Pauline Clark and Jasper Clark
Section one
Adolf Hitler arrives in Poland (Bundesarchiv, Bild 101I-013-0060-20)
Hitler at OKH headquarters in Berlin (Bundesarchiv, Bild 146-1971-070-61)
Franz Halder and von Brauchitsch (Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-H27722)
General Fedor von Bock (Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-1986-0226-500)
General Gerd von Rundstedt and Maximilian von Weichs (Bundesarchiv, Bild 101I-056-1643-29A)
Heinz Guderian with Georg-Hans Reinhardt (Bundesarchiv, Bild 146-1988-120-10)
General Erich Hoepner (Bundesarchiv, Bild 146-1971-068-10)
General Ewald von Kleist (Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-1986-0210-503)
General Friedrich Kirchner (Bundesarchiv, Bild 146-1997-018-33)
General Erich von Manstein (Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-H01757)
French prime minister Paul Reynaud ( IWM, HU70629)
General Maurice Gamelin and General Lord Gort ( IWM, O158)
Winston Churchill talks to General Lord Gort ( IWM, O190)
General Alphonse Joseph Georges inspects men from the BEFs Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers with General Lord Gort ( IWM, F3959)
A German armoured fighting vehicle factory (Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-L04352)
French troops prepare defences ( IWM, GSA Album 17 850, Image 145)
German pilots briefing at an airfield near Arras (Bundesarchiv, Bild 101I-383-0338-03)
French fighter patrol ( IWM, GSA Album 17 850, Image 76)
Joachim Meissner, Rudolf Witzig and Walter Koch listen to Hitler (Bundesarchiv, Bild 146-1993-033-26)
A Bren Carrier passes across the Belgian border ( IWM, F4348)
Section two
Two light German tanks in the Ardennes (Bundesarchiv, Bild 101I-382-0248-33A)
The pontoon bridge over the Meuse at Gaulier (Bundesarchiv, Bild 146-1978-062-24)
A French army signals post ( IWM, GSA Album 15 848, Image 219)
Sergeant Walther Rubarth (Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-L05202)
Hermann Balck (Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-L05202)
German tanks advance across Belgian terrain (Bundesarchiv, RH 82 Bild-00058)
Heinz Guderian in his command and communications halftrack (Bundesarchiv, 101I-769-0229-11A)
Rommel with General Hermann Hoth ( IWM, RML182)
French tank crews run to their Renault D2 tanks ( IWM, HU75654)
Rommel and a group of officers from 7th Panzer Division (Bundesarchiv, 146-1972-045-02)
Heinz Guderian receives the remains of a captured French Army standard ( IWM, MH10935)
British troops march through Dunkirk ( IWM, MH24141)
Major General Victor Fortune glowers at Rommel ( IWM, RML342)
Surrendered Belgian troops being goaded by Wehrmacht troops ( IWM, HU75891)
French refugees heading south ( IWM, GSA Album 16 849, Image 270)
Two Schutzpolizisten visit a damaged bunker (Bundesarchiv, 121-0486)
An RAF Fairey Battle attacks a German transport column ( IWM, C1737)
German infantry march through Paris (Bundesarchiv, 183-L11769)
German infantry and armour pushing deeper into France (Bundesarchiv, 101I-769-0228-22)
Marshal Philippe Ptain greets Hitler ( IWM, HU76027)
The Invasions of Poland, Denmark and Norway, 193940
Defences, Deployments and Plans, May 1940
1011 May 1940
The Ardennes, 1012 May 1940
Approach and Crossing of Meuse by Panzer Corps Guderian, 13 May 1940
German Advances and French Counter Attack, 14 May 1940
Advance to the Coast, 1520 May 1940
The Weygand Line and Fall Rot, 518 June 1940
The Advance to the Armistice, 25 June 1940
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