
Canal Line
Beschreibung
This is probably the first occasion that the fighting along the Canal Line has been looked at in detail; overlooked by the inevitable withdrawal towards the channel coast, the units deployed along the canal faced some of the stiffest fighting in the whole 1940 France and Flanders campaign. Whole battalions, particularly those in the 2nd Division, were sacrificed as units were thrown into the battle in an attempt to slow down the German advance. The book looks in some detail at the ad hoc nature of the Usherforce and Polforce units, the units of the independent 25 Brigade and the vicious fighting that enveloped the 2nd Division. Time is given also to the notorious massacre of the Royal Norfolks at Louis Creton's farm near Le Paradis.
Material concerning the deployment of units along the Canal Line in 1940 has been found in a variety of sources, including regimental histories and unit war diaries. The author has been fortunate in being able to access a number of personal diaries and accounts from men serving with the independent 25 Brigade and the 2nd Division, which has, in some cases, added to and enhanced the actions taken by those units while deployed on the canal.
The book is illustrated by over a hundred contemporary and modern photographs and by five car tours and three walks, all of which give the tourist a greater access to the battlefield.
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Inhalt
- Cover
- Book Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Maps
- Introduction by the Series Editor
- Author's Introduction
- Acknowledgements
- Chapter One: The Strategic Situation
- Chapter Two: Usherforce
- Chapter Three: Polforce
- Chapter Four: 25 Brigade
- Chapter Five: The Leicesters on the Deûle Canal
- Chapter Six: 6 Brigade at St-Venant and Robecq
- Chapter Seven: 4 Brigade and the Paradis Massacre
- Chapter Eight: 5 Brigade and Festubert
- Chapter Nine: The Tours
- Car Tour 1 Gravelines to Watten
- Car Tour 2 St-Momelin to Aire-sur-la-Lys
- Car Tour 3 St-Venant
- Car Tour 4 Festubert to La Bassée
- Walk 1 The Bader Route at St-Omer
- Walk 2 Gorre
- Walk 3 The Massacre at Louis Creton's Farm
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
- Back Cover
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