In 1940, the German army fought and won an extraordinary battle with France in six weeks of lightning warfare. With the subtlety and compulsion of a novel, Horn

"One diplomat's darkly humorous and ultimately scathing assault on just about everything the military and State Department have done—or tried to do—since th

The battle of Verdun lasted ten months. It was a battle in which at least 700,000 men fell, along a front of fifteen miles. Its aim was less to defeat the enemy

An engaging narrative of the small-unit actions near Sedan during the 1940 campaign for France.

History has tended to measure war's winners and losers in terms of its major engagements, battles in which the result was so clear-cut that they could be consid