List of Illustrations

List of Maps

Introduction

Note to Readers

1. Moment of Truth

2. The BEF Arrives in France

3. The Mechelen Affair

4. The Final Warning

5. The Matador's Cloak

6. Charging Bull

7. Into Battle

8. Over the River Meuse

9. Flight

10. Battle of the Bulge

11. Lambs to the Slaughter

12. The Arras Counter-Attack

13. We Stand and Fight

14. Escape from Arras

15. Boulogne and the Useless Mouths

16. Evacuation ofBoulogne

17. Calais and the French Complaint

18. Calais--Fight to the Finish

19. Lucky Breaks

20. Siege at Cassel

21. Surrounded at Le Paradis

22. Massacre at Le Paradis

23. Manhunt

24. Crisis in the North

25. Up the Glosters

26. Massacre at Wormhout

27. Escape to Dunkirk

28. The Dunkirk Armada

29. Beached

30. Entente Cordiale

31. Evacuation

32. Rearguard

33. Mission Accomplished

34. Payback

35. Sacrifice of the st Highland Division

36. The Sinking of the Lancastria

Epilogue

Maps

Appendices

Dramatis Personae

Abbreviations

Notes

Bibliography and Sources

Acknowledgements

Index

Photo by Saul Sebag-Montefiore

Hugh Sebag-Montefiore is a journalist and the author of Enigma: The Battle for the Code.