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100			_aErnest R May _99476
245			_aStrange Victory _bHitlers Conquest of France
260			_aNew York _bHill and Wang _c2000
300			_aviii,598 p. _bPB _c21x14 cm.
365			_b$15.00 _c$ _d$15.00
520			_aStrange 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.
650			_aFrance _99477
650			_aHistory _99478
650			_aGerman occupation _99479
700			_aMAY (Ernest R) _99480
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