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This is an important reassessment of a critical period in the British Expeditionary Forces fight against the German armies invading France in 1940. On May 25, Lord Gort, the British commander, took the decision to move 5th Division north in order to plug a growing gap in his armys eastern defenses. Over the next three days the division fought a little-known engagement, the Battle of the Ypres-Comines Canal, to hold the Germans at bay while the rest of the BEF retreated toward Dunkirk.
The book describes the British Army of 1940 and outlines the early stages of the campaign before explaining the context of Gorts decision and why it was made. Then, using British and German sources, it shows how the British doggedly defended their line against heavy German attacks, and demonstrates that the Expeditionary Force was far more than the badly equipped and undertrained army many historians have represented it as. This fresh look at the campaign also casts new light on other aspects such as the impact of the Luftwaffe and the Dunkirk evacuation itself.
This book is important for all those interested in the fighting which proceeded the general retreat to and evacuation from Dunkirk. The author has trawled numerous archival sources, which are well cited in this elegantly produced book. Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research
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| BA-MA Freiburg | Bundesarchiv Militaerarchiv, Freiburg |
| BEF | British Expeditionary Force |
| CAB | cabinet |
| CCMA | corps commander medium artillery |
| CGS | Chief of General Staff |
| C-in-C | commander-in-chief |
| CIGS | Chief of the Imperial General Staff |
| CO | commanding officer |
| CP | counter preparation |
| CRA | commander royal artillery |
| DCLI | The Duke of Cornwalls Light Infantry |
| DCM | Distinguished Conduct Medal (other ranks; equivalent to the DSO) |
| DF | defensive fire |
| DLI | The Durham Light Infantry |
| DLM | Division Lgre Mcanique |
| DR | dispatch rider |
| DSO | Distinguished Service Order (officers major and above; for leadership and/or gallantry) |
| FDL | forward defence locality |
| GF | gunfire |
| GHQ | general headquarters (from 25 May 1940 used to refer to advanced general headquarters) |
| GOC | general officer commanding |
| GSO1 | general staff officer 1 |
| HE | high explosive |
| HQ | headquarters |
| HQMA | headquarters medium artillery |
| HQRA | headquarters royal artillery |
| ID | infanterie-division |
| IO | intelligence officer |
| IR | infanterie-regiment |
| IWM | Imperial War Museum |
| LHCMA | Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives |
| MA | medium artillery |
| MC | Military Cross (officers majors and below; for gallantry) |
| MG | machine gun |
| MM | Military Medal (other ranks; equivalent to the Military Cross) |
| MT | motor transport |
| NAAFI | Navy, Army and Airforce Institutes |
| NCO | non-commissioned officer |
| NW | northwest |
| OKH | Oberkommando des Heeres |
| OP | observation post |
| RA | Royal Artillery |
| RAF | Royal Air Force |
| RAMC | Royal Army Medical Corps |
| RAP | regimental aid post |
| RASC | Royal Army Service Corps |
| RE | Royal Engineers |
| RSF | The Royal Scots Fusiliers |
| RSM | regimental sergeant-major |
| RT | radio transmitters |
| TNA | The National Archives |
| VC | Victoria Cross (all ranks supreme award for gallantry) |
| WO | War Office |
| Artillery regiments | Field artillery regiments are usually referred to in this book as, for example, 9th Field; medium artillery regiments are similarly abbreviated; Field engineer companies are referred to by their full title, e.g. 245th Field Company. |
Place names | British usage of the time has been adopted for place and river names, which means more often the French than the Flemish name. Thus it is Escaut rather than Scheldt, Courtrai rather than Kortrijk, etc. |
Quotations | The wording of quotations has not been altered (except that dots signify omissions) but a few silent adjustments have been made for ease of reading. Thus the British army habit of capitalising proper names has been dropped, some less obvious abbreviations have been expanded and misspellings corrected (Ploegsteert, for instance, has almost as many spellings as there are war diaries). In German war diaries the German convention of writing IR as JR, etc. has been reversed. |
| Regimental names | British regimental names have been abbreviated by the familiar abbreviations for individual counties: e.g, Warwicks (The Royal Warwickshire Regiment), Ox & Bucks (The Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry). |
| Time | Expressed throughout in the 24-hour clock, unless given otherwise in quotations. |
| Umlauts | Umlauts have been replaced by an e after the letter concerned: for example, Vortraege. |
Adjutant | Person with an important role in charge of battalion operations; the position is usually occupied by a middle-ranking officer. |
Army | A headquarters formation, usually commanding between two and four corps and some ancillary formations. The BEF was, in organisational terms, an army. |
| Battalion | Its composition is discussed in . Comprises about 800 officers and men at full strength. |
| Bombardier | Artillery equivalent of corporal. |
| Brigade | Usually three battalions with anti-tank support. |
Corps | A headquarters formation, usually commanding between two and four divisions with medium artillery regiments and (British army) machine-gun battalions. |
Division | Usually three brigades (regiments in the German army) of three battalions each, plus field artillery regiments and engineer companies. |
Guns/Howitzers | The technical military distinction is that howitzers have a higher potential angle of fire than guns. However, gun is also the term in common use for any artillery piece, including howitzers. Here howitzer has been used if there is some specific reason for distinguishing the type of weapon, but where all the artillery pieces involved in an action are being described then gun is used indiscriminately. The British described howitzers by muzzle diameter (e.g. 6-inch) and guns by weight of shell fired (e.g. 18-pounder). |
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