TAYLOR, Telford.
The Breaking Wave: The Second World War in the Summer of 1940.
New York: Simon and Schuster , 1967.
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First Edition of The Breaking Wave; Inscribed by Telford Taylor in the Year of Publication
First edition of this historical work told from the German perspective on the critical turning point of WWII when a victorious Germany failed to defeat Great Britain. Octavo, original publisher's cloth with a facsimile Telford Taylor signature to the front panel, top stain blue, illustrated with black and white photographs. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the front free endpaper, "For Larry and Janet Parker - with all good wishes (and for Hannibal too) - Telford Taylor April 1967." Fine in a near fine dust jacket with light bumping. Jacket design by Chermayeff & Geismar.
The Breaking Wave: The Second World War in the Summer of 1940 (1967) is a work of military history by Telford Taylor (1908–1998), the Williams College and Harvard Law School-educated lawyer, Brigadier General, and Columbia University Professor of Law who served as the chief American prosecutor at the Nuremberg successor trials following the International Military Tribunal and went on to produce some of the most authoritative historical writing on the Second World War and the Nazi regime in the English language. The book represents the second installment of Taylor's projected multi-volume history of the German military campaigns of 1939 to 1945, following The March of Conquest: The German Victories in Western Europe, 1940 (1958), and examines the extraordinary summer of 1940 largely from the German perspective, tracing the Wehrmacht's seemingly unstoppable advance across Western Europe, the fall of France in June 1940, and the subsequent failure of the Luftwaffe's air campaign against Britain that marked the first decisive check to German military expansion. Taylor's friend Jonathan Bush, a professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, described him as a giant of American liberalism and a man of integrity whose legacy as chief Nuremberg prosecutor was matched by his achievements as a historian of the war itself, and the military history trilogy that The Breaking Wave extends confirms that judgment.
The Breaking Wave: The Second World War in the Summer of 1940.
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