Assignment To Catastrophe 2 Volumes

Edward Spears The Fall Of France June 1940

Published by William Heinemann Ltd, Great Britain, 1954

About this Item

Set of 2 Volumes,Vol 1 Prelude to Dunkirk July 1939-May 1940 ; Vol 2.Red cloth covers with black titles to spine.Both volumes are clean and tight.Vol 2 has printers cloth adhesive showing through cloth as dark colouration.Vol 2 has had 2 prelims torn in half and pated together at tear.Both books are illustrated and have maps on paste downs and prelims. This highly acclaimed two-volume work tells the full story of General Spears¿ mission as Churchill¿s representative with the French Government in 1940. Volume one covers their visit to the Maginot Line in 1939 where they meet General Georges and discuss the coming conflict. The author goes on to describe the fall of Chamberlain¿s government in London, and conferences and interviews in France with Reynaud, Petain, Weygand and Darlan, helplessly watching the rape of France. Here also is Churchill in his finest hour. This volume ends as the German pincers are closing on the British and French armies at Dunkirk. Volume two continues the author's terrifying story of all he saw happening in France after Dunkirk and the fears of his first volume are realised in his second with the Maginot Line being overrun. He covers the final scenes in Bordeaux and then the story ends with the author's rescue of de Gaulle to England in his plane.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Assignment To Catastrophe 2 Volumes
• Publisher: William Heinemann Ltd, Great Britain
• Publication Date: 1954
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: None