The Fall of France
Subtitle: The Nazi Invasion of 1940
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: April 14, 2004
Language: eng
Number of pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780192805508
First sentence: January 1940. Sir Edmund Ironside, Chief of the Imperial General Staff, summed up his impressions of the French army after a visit to France: I must say that I saw nothing amiss with it on the surface.