The Breaking Point: Sedan and the Fall of France, 1940 - Hardcover

Doughty, Robert Allan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0208022813 ISBN 13: 9780208022813

Publisher: Shoe String Press Inc.,U.S., 1990

Synopsis

Colonel Doughty (US Army and West Point) examines the German victory at Sedan, which has generally been viewed as testament to an innovative and invincible German war machine. Through detailed analysis of both French and German battle records, he reconstructs the battle and reveals, not a new and superior weaponry or war machine, but efficient technical and procedural use of the German infantry. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

About this title

Synopsis:

In telling the story of Sedan, Doughty brings to life individual soldiers, ridge lines, copses, gun emplacements, charges and bug-outs -- all the detail that creates layer and layer of opportunity or obstacle for victory or defeat. The result is an authentic grasp not only of a key battle in a crucial campaign, but of what really happens on the fields of wartime strife.

About the Author:

Brig. Gen. Robert A. Doughty, USA (Ret.), is a graduate of West Point, former chair of its history department, and a prize-winning military historian. He is the author of Pyrrhic Victory: French Strategy and Operations in the Great War. He lives in Louisiana.

About this edition

• Publisher: Shoe String Press Inc.,U.S.
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0208022813
• ISBN 13: 9780208022813
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 382