Fall of France : the nazi invasion of 1940

This new book by Julian Jackson, a leading historian of twentieth-century France, charts the breathtakingly rapid events that led to the defeat and surrender of one of the key Allied powers, setting in motion the traumatic years of the Occupation, the Vichy regime, and the rapid escalation of World War Two. - ;On 16 May 1940 an emergency meeting of the French High Command was called at the Quai d'Orsay in Paris. The German army had broken through the French lines on the River Meuse at Sedan and elsewhere, only five days after launching their attack. Churchill, who had been telephoned by Prime

PART I: THE STORY; 1. 'We Are Beaten'; 2. Uneasy Allies; 3. The Politics of Defeat; 4. The French People at War; PART II: CAUSES, CONSEQUENCES, AND COUNTERFACTUALS; 5. Causes and Counterfactuals; 6. Consequences; Guide to Further Reading; Notes; Index