Blitzkrieg. From the Rise of Hitler to the Fall of Dunkirk

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This is the 1990 Grafton reissue, for the 1980 Triad Granada edition with the same ISBNs see here Len Deighton brings to bear all the skills of a best-selling novelist in this compelling study. In Blitzkrieg, Len Deighton turns a searchlight on the rise of Hitler, the lightning dash of his armies to the Channel coast in 1940 and on the debacle of Dunkirk, where — in a mistake that was to trigger his eventual downfall — a quarter of a million British troops were allowed to escape.