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11 Colonel Vickery letter to Beauman 14 May 1941. Beauman Papers
12 Marshall-Cornwall Report dated June 1940. WO216/116. See also Marshall-Cornwal. Wars and Rumours of Wars p155
13 War Illustrated 23 August 1940 p193
14 Wylly p125
15 For more on M. Marland, see www.etab.ac-caen.fr/lycee-hotelier-granville/resist.htm. See also www.christopherlong.co.uk for information about other networks set up to aid BEF soldiers escape France.
16 Bryant. Turn of the Tide p164
17 Beauman p164
18 Caddick-Adams, P. ‘Anglo-French Co-operation during the battle for France’ in Bond, B & Taylor M. The Battle for France and Flanders Sixty Years On Pen & Sword 2001: p49
19 Blaxland p131
20 Von Altenstadt, HG. Unser Weg zum Meer Berlin 1940 p182
21 Quoted in Thompson p301
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WO 167/765 7th Bn Royal West Kents
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German officers relax after reaching the coast.
A Lewis gun crew provide what air cover they can.
Exhausted surviving members of the digging divisions sleep on deck at Cherbourg prior to evacuation. Some were so drained they slept through
air raids.
Cover illustrations
Front, top: British POW after the battle. Front, bottom: The British had forgotten the late successes of the Stosstruppen of the Great War; the Germans had not. Blitzkrieg was imminent.
Back: A field burial.
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