num_pages: 304
description: 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.
language: English
title: Blitzkrieg: From the Rise of Hitler to the Fall of Dunkirk
titlecomplete: Blitzkrieg: From the Rise of Hitler to the Fall of Dunkirk
genres: Military Fiction, History, World War II, Economics, Germany, War, European History, Politics, Military History, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 1640
publisher: Pimlico