After the long winter of the Phoney War the invasion of the Low Countries
and France by
Hitler’s rampaging armies threw the World into crisis. Chamberlain’s Government
fell, Churchill became Prime Minister. France was humiliated, the British Expeditionary
Force was only saved by the miracle of Dunkirk but many men and huge amounts of
equipment were lost to the Blitzkrieg. England trembled but the invasion
never came.
Philip Warner graphically recounts the momentous events of that terrible
period thanks to his painstaking research and skilful writing. He demonstrates
how the under trained and ill-equipped British forces gallantly but futilely
resisted the German land and air onslaught. He emphasises the understated
contribution of the French.
This book provides a fresh and invaluable explanation of the military and
political events of that extraordinary campaign, which continued on after
Dunkirk.
