The Week France Fell: June 10-June 16, 1940

by BARBER NOEL

• ISBN13: 9780815410911
• ISBN10: 0815410913
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-11-01
• Publisher: Natl Book Network

Summary

A moving account of how ordinary men and women faced the loss of their beloved country to Nazi invaders.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	5	(2)
Acknowledgements	7	(8)
MONDAY, 10 JUNE
Paris - the people	15	(9)
The politicians	24	(11)
The trains that never ran	35	(9)
Rome, London, Washington	44	(14)
TUESDAY, 11 JUNE
Exodus	58	(9)
The reason why	67	(5)
The forgotten city	72	(9)
Churchill at Briare	81	(17)
WEDNESDAY, 12 JUNE
`The country will not forgive you'	98	(3)
Chaos on the roads	101	(5)
Poste Restante, Tours	106	(6)
Paris - open city	112	(7)
London, New York, Tokyo	119	(4)
Tours: Madame de Portes vetoes the Breton redoubt	123	(3)
THURSDAY, 13 JUNE
`Get that woman out of here'	126	(19)
`The hole in the ground'	145	(4)
Paris - the last day of freedom	149	(7)
FRIDAY, 14 JUNE
The Germans march into Paris	156	(15)
Berlin in triumph	171	(5)
The battlefield	176	(4)
Destinations unknown	180	(5)
`You will be submerged in defeat'	185	(14)
SATURDAY, 15 JUNE
`This stinking city'	199	(13)
Roosevelt's dilemma	212	(3)
`Never shall I inflict such ignominy upon our colours'	215	(9)
`The last quarter of an hour'	224	(6)
SUNDAY, 16 JUNE
The Gestapo moves in	230	(10)
The rout	240	(3)
Laval waits to be crowned	243	(9)
De Gaulle lunches with Churchill	252	(3)
`Better be a Nazi province'	255	(12)
Night falls on Bordeaux	267	(16)
The morning after	283	(11)
The Price	294	(11)
What Happened to Them	305	(3)
Select Bibliography	308	(8)
Index	316