The Fall of France
Subtitle: The Nazi Invasion of 1940 (Modern World)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: May 29, 2003
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780192803009
First sentence: EARLY in the morning of 15 May 1940, five days after the Germans had launched their offensive in the west, Winston Churchill was woken by a telephone call from Paul Reynaud, the French Prime Minister: He spoke in English, and evidently under stress.