Wehrmacht WW2 Kleist Campaign Photo Book 1940 France Sedan Dunkirchen Loire Oise

Description

Kleist Group through France
Very rare documentary book detailing the German conquest of France by Group Kleist.
Hardcover
243 pages
~200 full page photos in gravure printing
map of  France
In
good exterior and good interior
condition
.
Mild shelfwear, foxing to extremities, endpapers, title page and occasionally to page margins, otherwise ok.
All pages are complete and tight in the binding.
Approx/Measurements: 10-1/2" x 7-1/4"  ~1.7 lbs.
Published by Company E.S.M. & Son
Inhaltsverzeichnis (table of contents):
- Breaking through the southern belgium fortification
and the Ardennes; 10-May - 12-May-1940
- Enforcement of the Maas-passage
at Sedan and Monthermé; 12-May - 13-May-1940
- Defensive battles south of Sedan; 13-May - 18-May-1940
- Fighting from the Maas
to the Oise; 14-May - 18-May-1940
- Break through to the sea; 15-May - 21-May-1940
- Taking Boulogne
and Calais; 22-May - 26-May-1940
- Fights in Flanders (La Bassée-Kanal, Hazebrouk,
Casset, surrounding of Dunkirchen);
24-May - 1-Jun-1940
- Break through battle at the Somme to the Oise;
5-Jun - 11-Jun-1940
- Crossing the Marne and
break through to the Seine; 12-Jun - 14-Jun-1940
- Enforcement of crossing the Seine,
tracking till Dijon and Lyon and gaining bridgeheads
at the upper Loire; 15-Jun - 19-Jun-1940
- New formation and tracking from the Loire to the
Charente; 20-Jun - 25-Jun-1940
- Occupation of southern France; 26-Jun - 2-Jul-1940
[
background info:
The PANZERGRUPPE KLEIST had become famous in Germany in the Blitzkrieg against Poland in 1939 which
actually started World War II. Their fame extended in the 1940 campaign in Western Europe which ended
with the surrender of Belgium, Luxembourg, Holland and France!
In the spring of 1941 they started their tanks again in their barracks in Dresden and rolled via Wien (Vienna),
Budapest, Sinaia, Bukarest, Sofia, Hankia to their final and victorious battle in Belgrad, capital of Serbia!]
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