The week France fell /

A moving account of how ordinary men and women faced the loss of their beloved country to Nazi invaders.

Λεπτομέρειες βιβλιογραφικής εγγραφής
Κύριος συγγραφέας: Barber, Noel 1909- (συγγραφέας.)
Μορφή: Βιβλίο
Γλώσσα:English
Έκδοση: New York : Stein and Day, 1976.
Θέματα:
Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
  • Monday, 10 June. Paris, the people
  • The politicians
  • The trains that never ran
  • Rome, London, Washington
  • Tuesday, 11 June. Exodus
  • The reason why ; The forgotten city
  • Churchill at Briare Wednesday, 12 June. 'The country will not forgive you'
  • Chaos on the roads
  • Poste Restante, Tours
  • Paris, open city
  • London, New York, Tokyo
  • Tours : Madame de Portes vetoes the Breton redoubt-- Thursday, 13 June. 'Get that woman out of here'
  • 'The hole in the ground'
  • Paris, the last day of freedom
  • Friday, 14 June. The Germans march into Paris
  • Berlin in triumph
  • The battlefield
  • Destinations unknown
  • 'You will be submerged in defeat'
  • Saturday, 15 June. 'This stinking city'
  • Roosevelt's dilemma
  • 'Never shall I inflict such ignominy upon our colours'
  • 'The last quarter of an hour'-- Sunday, 16 June. The Gestapo moves in
  • The rout
  • Laval waits to be crowned
  • De Gualle lunches with Churchill
  • 'Better be a Nazi province'
  • Night falls on Bordeaux
  • The morning after.