num_pages: 231
description: During the German advance through Belgium into France in 1940 which led to the fall of France Captain de Reixach is shot dead by a sniper. Three of his dragoons involved with him in different capacities remember him and help the reader piece together the realities behind the man and his death.One was a distant relative one his orderly and the third who had been a jockey in his stable before the war had also been his wife's secret lover.
language: English
title: The Flanders Road
publisher: Calder Publications