To Lose a Battle (98 page)

‘Brandenburgers’,
209
,
265–7
,
270
,
528

Brauchitsch, Field-Marshal Heinrich von: character,
188
; exercises in motorization,
90
; and ‘Directive Yellow’,
185–7
; and Hitler,
188–90
,
200
,
482
,
487
,
515
,
565
,
613–14
,
639
; caution,
194
; and Manstein Plan,
197–9
,
206
; and Army Group ‘A’,
284
; later career,
677

Braun, Wernher von,
121

Briand, Aristide,
61
,
65

Briare,
644
,
650

Britain: and treatment of Germany at Versailles,
56–7
; French debt to,
59
; and reparations,
59–60
; fear for Germany,
67
; war production,
134
; declares war,
137
; French Anglophobia,
152
; propaganda against,
158
; and Belgium,
169
; possible invasion of,
212
; wasted amphibious tradition,
217
; Hitler’s designs on,
534–5
; Dunkirk evacuation,
610–11
; reaction to French Armistice,
668–9
; lack of German plans to invade,
671

British Army,
50
,
76
,
79–80
,
91
,
148
,
158
,
230
;
see also
British Expeditionary Force

British Expeditionary Force: arrives in France,
139
; bustle in ‘Phoney War’,
150
,
236
; in Dyle-Breda Plan,
173–4
; advances into Belgium,
289–90
; on Dyle,
295
,
296
,
369
,
430–1
; and Louvain,
296
,
402
; ‘stunned’ by retreat to Escaut,
431
; Air Component removed to England,
504
,
543–4
; extremely tired,
546
; plans for evacuating,
548–50
,
604–5
; German view of fighting qualities,
561
; plan for counter-attack,
567–8
; Ironside’s pessimism,
572–3
; attack on Arras,
573–82
; Weygand’s plans for,
593–4
; on half-rations,
603
; too late to save?,
604
; Gort decides to save,
608
; falls back to Dunkirk,
616–17
; French bitterness,
619–21
; evacuated,
632–3
; intelligence service,
635
,
636
,
637
; losses,
667

British Signals Intelligence. (‘Sigint’),
634

Brocard, General,
395–8
,
419
,
423–4

Brooke, Lieutenat-General Alan,
151–2
,
234
,
272
,
311
,
430
,
507
,
523
,
569
,
604

Bruché, General,
427–9
,
469–70
,
496–7
,
512

Bruneau, General,
376–7
,
408–10
,
477
,
518

Brunehamel,
416–17
,
428
,
520

Bullitt, William,
442
,
550
,
658

Bulson,
359–63
,
383–4
,
531

Busch, General,
212
,
366

Bussche, Axel von dem,
381

Cachin, Marcel,
55

Cadogan, Sir Alexander,
458

Calais,
547–8
,
582
,
584
,
597
,
617–18

Cambrai,
513–17
,
526
,
541–2
,
547
,
572
,
576
,
585
,
601

Campinchi, César,
627
,
652

Canal du Nord,
517
,
541–2

Canaris, Admiral,
246
,
265–6
,
531

Capelle, La,
474
,
477
,
501

Cateau, Le,
478
,
497–500
,
513
,
516

Catelet, Le,
512
,
518

Cerfontaine,
407
,
411–12

Chabrehez,
276
,
279
,
281

Châlons-sur-Marne,
644

Chamber of Deputies,
104–5
,
454–6

Chamberlain, Neville,
124
,
133
,
134
,
135
,
156
,
181
,
182
,
215
,
548

Chambrun, Captain René de,
572

Channel ports, German drive for,
534–5
,
542
,
596–601
,
608

Chanoine, General,
285
,
392–3
,
425

Chapelle, La,
366
,
400

Charleroi,
376
,
407
,
428
,
507

Charleville-Mézières,
306
,
333
,
393
,
416
,
566

Chasseurs Ardennais,
241
,
263
,
265
,
276
,
284
,
307
,
330
,
527

Château de Vignolles,
634
,
635

Château Porcein,
425
,
644

Chaumont,
334
,
359–60
,
363
,
365
,
531

Chautemps, Camille,
100
,
101
,
104
,
652
,
660

Chéhéry,
334
,
365
,
383–4

Chémery,
362
,
383–4
,
386
,
387
,
423

Cherbourg,
643
,
647

Churchill, Winston S.: on 1918 victory,
45
; on French Army,
67
; and reoccupation of Rhineland,
84
; on
Siegfried Line,
85
; on coming of Pitt,
86
; on Seeckt,
89
; on Munich ‘breathing space’,
124
; on decline of French Air Force,
125
; on Polish guarantee,
134
; Georges’s influence on,
168
; and French Army dispositions,
175
; on Chiefs of Staff System,
190–1
; and ‘special operations’,
208
; and mining the leads,
214–15
; on Reynaud-Daladier feud,
226
; becomes Prime Minister,
228
,
271
; on lack of French activity,
236–7
; and Hurricane squadrons,
434
,
444
,
446
,
460–3
,
506
,
510
; on Reynaud’s telephone call,
445–6
; misled by Gamelin and Georges,
446–7
; flies to Paris,
447
,
456
; meet French leaders,
456–61
; ‘no strategic reserve?’,
457–8
; on Gamelin,
459
; attempts to rally French,
460–1
,
548
,
633
,
651
; lack of confidence in French,
462
,
548
; and magnetic mines in Meuse,
509
; on Panzers – as ‘scythes’,
511
; as ‘tortoise’,
552
,
564
; on need to bomb them,
544–5
; prepares for ‘Dynamo’,
550
,
567
; and Weygand’s journey north,
587
; visits Paris again,
592–6
; impressed by Weygand,
592
,
595
; telegram to Gort on Weygand Plan,
593–4
; lack of recent experience,
596
; orders Calais not to surrender,
598
; urges Weygand Plan, fears no French initiative,
603–4
; and Gort’s withdrawal,
606
,
625
; on deliverance of Dunkirk,
609
,
611
,
612
,
632–3
; and Belgian surrender,
621
; Reynaud visits,
628
; on Gort,
630–1
; warns of ‘heavy tidings’,
631
; orders Gort to leave Dunkirk,
632
; and evacuation of French,
633
; visits Tours, urges defence of Paris,
650
; and Georges and Pétain,
651–2
; last visit to Tours,
656–7
; on Mandel,
656
; on French capitulation,
658–9
; on de Gaulle,
661
; and Gort,
678–9