To Lose a Battle: France 1940

Alistair Horne

Jun 2007 · Penguin UK

About this ebook

In 1940, the German army fought and won an extraordinary battle with France in six weeks of lightning warfare. With the subtlety and compulsion of a novel, Horne’s narrative shifts from minor battlefield incidents to high military and political decisions, stepping far beyond the confines of military history to form a major contribution to our understanding of the crises of the Franco-German rivalry.

To Lose a Battle is the third part of the trilogy beginning with The Fall of Paris and continuing with The Price of Glory (already available in Penguin).

Ratings and reviews

I'd have loved to write a review if Google hadn't arbitrarily decided I'd read the whole book halfway through and closed it out on me. After page 533 it jumps to the end and concludes I have already read it. Now I can't even call it up any more because it's been "read." What a system. The part I was able to read was terrific.

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About the author

One of Britain’s greatest historians, Sir Alistair Horne, CBE, is the author of several famous books on French history as well as a two-volume life of Harold Macmillan.