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No. There was relatively little actual fighting during the BLitzkrieg. It was about speed and the cutting of communications (in the military sense of roads and
by anigbrowl 3y ago
No. There was relatively little actual fighting during the BLitzkrieg. It was about speed and the cutting of communications (in the military sense of roads and bridges rather than radio and telephone). France also had staggeringly poor command structures and they were so invested in the Maginot Line scenario that they simply didn't take the invasion seriously at first.
Surprisingly, one of the best histories of Blitzkrieg I've read was a pop-history book (just called 'Blitzkrieg') by Len Deighton, better known for his spy novels. What it lacks in detail, biographical material and so on is made up for by its broad scope, going from industrial production and methods during the interwar rearmament period through to the logistics of the BEF evacuation at Dunkirk.