TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ernest R May
AU  - MAY (Ernest R)
TI  - Strange Victory: Hitlers Conquest of France
SN  - 0809088541
U1  - 940.54214 23
PY  - 2000///
CY  - New York
PB  - Hill and Wang
KW  - France
KW  - History
KW  - German occupation
N2  - Strange Victory is a riveting book about France and Germany in the years leading up to World War II. Why did Hitler turn against France in the Spring of 1940 and not before? And why were his poor judgement and inadequate intelligence about the Allies nonetheless correct? Why didn't France take the offensive earlier, when it might have led to victory? What explains France's failure to detect and respond to Germany's attack plan?

Skillfully weaving together decisions of the high commands with the confused responses from exhausted and ill-informed, or ill-advised, officers in the field, the distinguished diplomatic historian Ernest R. May offers many new insights into the tragic paradoxes of the battle for France
ER  -