# To Lose a Battle

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- Book: [To Lose a Battle](https://www.bookquiver.com/alistair-horne/to-lose-a-battle) ([To Lose a Battle.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/alistair-horne/to-lose-a-battle.md))
- Authors: [Alistair Horne](https://www.bookquiver.com/alistair-horne)
- Publisher: Penguin
- ISBN: 978-01-4103-065-4
- Pages: 736
- Published: 2007-06-28
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

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, Horne’s narrative shifts from minor battlefield incidents to high military and political decisions, stepping far beyond the confines of military history to form a major contribution to our understanding of the crises of the Franco-German rivalry. To Lose a Battle is the third part of the trilogy beginning with The Fall of Paris and continuing with The Price of Glory (already available in Penguin).