Osprey Publishing - Battles of World War II - France 1940, Blitzkrieg in the West

The German victory of 1940 stunned the world. France, a major European power with one of the worlds’ largest armies, fell in less than seven weeks to the might of the German Wehrmacht. The secret of the Wehrmacht’s success lay in its carefully thought-out organisation and the tactics of blitzkrieg. Fast moving tank divisions supported by armoured mobile infantry swept over and through opposition, helped by both the conventional bombers and deadly Stuka dive-bombers. Alan Shepperd’s detailed text examines the tactics, organisation and equipment of the Allied and German forces, and provides a daily account of the most crucial period of the battle, the fall of France, and the evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force at Dunkirk