To Lose a Battle
by Sir Alistair Horne · first published 1979
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The question is always, "Which one?" Having recently read To Lose a Battle, Alistair Horne's history of the 1940 campaign in France, I have to say that some very high ranking officers have been very bad at assessing risk.
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