Stella & Rose's Books

Front cover

Contents

• Acknowledgements
• Chapter One 'A Specified dimension within a specified time'
• The BEF Destroyed and Rebuilt, 1919 - 1939
• Chapter Two Wagging the Dog
• The Expansion of the Logistical 'Tail'
• Chapter Three 'You are no longer Saturday night soldiers'
• The Mobilisation of the Territorial Army, 1939
• Chapter Four Leaving Much to be Desired
• The Deployment of the 'Digging Divisions', April 1940
• Chapter Five Seeing the Wood for the Trees
• The British High Command and the Allied Plan, 1940
• Chapter Six The Matador's Cloak and the Revolving Door
• Fall Gelb, The German Invasion Plans
• Chapter Seven 'More Gallantly than advisedly'
• Committing the Digging Divisions, May 1940
• Chapter Eight 'Very Brave, but very, very stupid
• The Slaughter of the Innocents, 20 May
• Chapter Nine 'We happen to be going that way'
• The 2/5th Yorkshires and the Road to Dunkirk
• Chapter Ten 'Heroic but thoroughly unsound'
• The Stranding of 137 brigade, 20 May
• Chapter Eleven the Sixth Wheel
• Losing Command and Control in Normandy, June 1940
• Chapter Twelve 'Houses covered in rambler roses'
• The 2/6th Dukes and Highland Division, St Valery
• Chapter Thirteen 'Non-Swimmers stay back!'
• Crossing the Seine, the 2/7th Dukes at Les Andelys
• Chapter Fourteen 'I was never a boy any more'
• The 2/4th KOYLI and the battle for Pont de L'Arche
• Chapter Fifteen
• Epilogue
• Homecomings, 1940-1945
• Bibliography
• Index