Fall Gelb 1940 (2)

Airborne assault on the Low Countries

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Description

This highly illustrated title deals with the great blitzkrieg campaign of May/June 1940 as German forces poured through Holland and Belgium to confront the French and British. The campaign was audacious, relying on speed and feinting and maneuvers as much as superior force. In the end those qualities were to prove decisive to German success.
Peter Dennis' superb illustrations illuminate a campaign which was in many ways ground-breaking, featuring the first ever airborne assault at a strategic level, and at this point the largest clash of armor in history.

Table of Contents

Origins of the campaign
Chronology

Opposing commanders
Opposing armies
Orders of battle
Opposing plans
The campaign

Aftermath
The battlefields today
Further reading
Index

Product details

Published Jan 20 2015
Format Paperback
Edition 1st
Extent 96
ISBN 9781472802743
Imprint Osprey Publishing
Illustrations 74 col
Dimensions 10 x 7 inches
Series Campaign
Short code CAM 265
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Author

Douglas C. Dildy

Douglas C. Dildy is a retired US Air Force colonel…

Illustrator

Peter Dennis

Peter Dennis was inspired by contemporary magazine…

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