Murf quoted Blitzkrieg by Len Deighton
Deighton, author of SS-GB and other thrillers, turns to history again with this companion piece …
In ideal weather Guderian’s highly trained armoured force used equipment designed to the scale of Western Europe. Never again in the Second World War were such factors to provide another chance for blitzkrieg.
— Blitzkrieg by Len Deighton (Page 214)
Important to note the combination of terrain, geography, allied plans, army deployment and poor allied communications and response to changing realities all led to this remarkable victory. The axis saw the possibility and took it in an all or nothing gamble that only worked in that time, and that place.