Flames of Calais
The Soldier's Battle 1940
Published on 2. November 2003
224 pages
978-1-78383-498-3 (ISBN)
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The defence of Calais in May/June 1940 was a superb example of selfless courage and sacrifice. Sent by Churchill to divert the Germans from Dunkirk and so save the British Army, 30 Infantry Brigade had orders not to evacuate or surrender. Airey Neave, later to be Margaret Thatcher's right hand man until his assassination in 1979, was one of those who fought, was wounded and captured there and his account remains the classic.
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Flames of Calais: a Soldier's Battle 1940
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Content
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Maps
- PART I CONTRADICTORY ORDERS
- Principal events covered by Part I
- Chapter One Was Churchill Right?
- Chapter Two The Scythe Stroke
- Chapter Three The Defence of Orphanage Farm
- Chapter Four "An Extraordinary Way to go to War
- Chapter Five The Queen Victoria's Rifles
- Chapter Six Claude Nicholson
- Chapter Seven The Green Jackets
- PART II THE OUTER PERIMETER
- Principal events covered by Part II
- Chapter Eight Evacuation in Principle
- Chapter Nine "Allied Solidarity
- Chapter Ten The Honour of France
- Chapter Eleven The Boulevard Léon Gambetta
- Chapter Twelve Withdrawal to Calais-Nord
- PART III THE 25TH AND 26TH OF MAY
- Principal events covered by Part III
- Chapter Thirteen The Answer is No
- Chapter Fourteen Desperate Moments
- Chapter Fifteen To the Last Man
- Chapter Sixteen "A Good Day
- Chapter Seventeen The Gare Maritime
- Chapter Eighteen The Final Stand
- Chapter Nineteen "Every Man for Himself
- Chapter Twenty A Fitting Finish
- Chapter Twenty-one Calais: An Epilogue
- Appendix
- Index
