"To Lose a Battle: France 1940" by Alistair Horne, published by Little, Brown and Company, Boston, MA, 1969. Stated First Edition.

Hard boards, original red cloth, gilt decoration on the front board, gilt lettering in black box on spine [some wear: see photos]; 6" x 9.1/2"; illustrated endpapers; 647 pages including Index, maps and photographs, discarded Air Force library book with stamps and removed labels, a little wear and soiling, very good condition.

"In 1940 Hitler sent his troops to execute the Fall of France. A six-week battle with lightning 'blitzkrieg' warfare and combined operations techniques, the offensive ended the Phony War and sent the French forces reeling as their government fled from occupied Paris. For the Axis, it was a dramatic victory. But how was this spectacular result possible? In To Lose a Battle Alistair Horne tells the day-by-day, moment-by-moment story of the battle, sifted from the vast Nazi archives and the fragmentary records of the beaten Allies. Using eye-witness accounts of battle operations and personal memoirs of leading figures on both sides, this book steps far beyond the confines of military accounts to form a major contribution to our understanding of this important period in European history. 'Alistair Horne really brings home the pathos and human folly of war, and he writes brilliantly."

"All the details are there: the small, fleeting triumphs, the greater disasters, the bravery, the cowardice, the stupidity and the intelligence ... that make war so fascinating and so terrible' ... the definitive account of one of the most efficient and astonishing campaigns of all time."

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