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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 very good interior condition.
Extremities slightly rubbed, 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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