England's Last War Against France

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by Colin Smith


  Ziman, Herbert David, Instructions for British Servicemen in France, 1944, Bodleian Library, Oxford, 2005

  Index

  Abetz, Otto, 107–10, 138–9, 141, 155, 157–60, 169, 273–4, 395–7, 401, 416

  Abgrail, Capitaine de corvette, 397, 400

  Abrial, Amiral Jean, 60

  Abyssinia, 11, 13, 115, 343; see also Ethiopia

  Achenbach, Ernst, 109–10

  Acre, 192, 269–71

  Action Française, 104, 156

  Adams, Private, 208, 210

  Adams, Sergeant, 257

  Admiral Graf Spee, 38–9, 98n

  Admiral Scheer, 39

  Admiral von Hipper, 44, 420

  Adowa, Battle of, 11

  Afrika Korps, 169–70, 219, 252, 274, 336–7, 346, 364, 399

  Agnew, Captain Sir William Gladstone, 399

  Aikou Maru, 335

  Ain Taya, 426

  Aintree racecourse, 100–2, 151, 272

  Air Striking Force, 178–81

  Aisne, river, 18, 20

  Aiteniye Farm, 202, 207, 216–18

  Ajax, 130

  Albatross, 412

  Alcyon, 412

  Aldis, Flight Lieutenant J.R., 213

  Aleppo, 181, 184, 246–7, 255, 257–9, 262-3

  Alexandria, 46, 59–60, 67, 93, 117, 186, 187, 236, 265, 329

  Alfieri, Dino, 404

  al-Gaylani, Rashid Ali, 166–7, 169, 171, 173, 175, 180, 182, 187, 193, 219, 248

  Algeria, 10, 16, 57, 112, 139, 152, 156, 346, 364, 367–9, 390, 393, 395, 408–9, 412, 413, 422

  Algiers, 46, 84, 86–7, 143, 347, 350-2, 359–63, 428

  Allied invasion, 363-5, 367, 369–73, 375–8, 381, 385–91, 395, 409–10, 413

  ceasefire, 393, 397, 400-2, 407

  Darlan’s home, 359–61, 363, 369–70, 406

  and French fleet, 417–18

  La Maison Blanche Airport, 401-2

  post-invasion politics, 420-1, 423-6

  al-Husseini, Haj Amin, 165

  Alibert, Raphael, 155-6

  Allen, Major General Terry de La Mesa, 408–9

  Allen, Sergeant-Major, 306

  Allenby, Field Marshal Lord, 175, 221, 223

  Alliance Démocratique, 29

  Alsace, 13, 16, 23-4, 109, 271, 396

  Ambararata, Bay, 291, 295–7, 307, 312

  Amerika (Hitler’s train), 139–40, 158, 160

  Amiel, Capitaine de vaisseau, 422

  Andersen, Lale (singer), 419

  Anderson, Lieutenant General Kenneth, 364-5, 424

  Anglo-French naval cooperation, 19, 36–40, 60-1

  Anglo-French Supreme War Council, 61

  Anglo-Iraq Treaty, 165-6

  Annet, Armand, 284-5, 299–300, 327, 330-1, 336–7, 339, 341, 343-5, 348–9, 354

  anti-Semitism, 14, 30-1, 104, 106, 108, 424

  Antsirabe, 348

  Antsirane, 286, 291, 295, 297–302, 305, 307–8, 314, 316, 319, 321, 324-5, 329, 332

  Arab Legion (Glubb’s Girls), 174-5, 180, 246–7, 254-5

  Arc de Triomphe, 23, 426

  Archibald, Private Tom, 205

  Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, 25

  Armée d’Afrique du Nord, 367, 407

  Armée du Levant, 191, 223, 245-6, 260-1, 270, 273

  Armistice of Saint Jean d’Acre, 269

  Armstrong, Lieutenant Colonel Jamie, 310

  Arrachart airfield, 298–9

  Asdic, 38, 333-4

  aspirants, 388–9

  Assollant, Capitaine, 326

  Assyrian levies, 163, 176, 180

  Astles, Lieutenant, 301-3, 305

  Athenia, 216

  Athens, 170, 183, 246, 256, 258, 413

  Atlantis, 328

  Aubervilliers, 432

  Auchinleck, Lieutenant General Claude, 43, 45, 99, 274

  Auphan, Amiral Gabriel, 404, 418, 420

  Austin, Pierre, 124

  Australia, 22, 189, 194-5, 232

  Australian Light Horse, 221, 223

  Australians, 26, 251-2, 257, 263-4, 268, 269

  capture of Damour, 261-3

  and liberation of Damascus, 242-3

  and Litani river operation, 189, 191-2, 194–7, 201, 203–8, 210–11, 214–18, 220

  and Merjayoun operation, 223-4, 232-6

  Baalbek, 181, 201

  Baghdad, 163, 165, 167, 171, 175-6, 179–81, 184, 193, 219, 250, 272

  Baglioni, Marshal, 45

  Baie du Courrier, 291, 294-5, 298–9, 301, 312–13, 326

  Bailey, Second Lieutenant Edward, 264-5

  Bailey, Bombardier, 311, 332

  Bailie, Sergeant, 251

  Balaclava, Battle of, 188, 306

  Balkans, 93, 145, 171, 189

  Baltic Sea, 40, 189, 243

  Bandarane Heights, 263

  Bande, Lieutenant, 310

  Bangalore Torpedoes, 131

  Barada gorge, 233, 243

  Bardollet, Lieutenant, 258

  Baril, Major Pierre, 390

  Barmouth, 102-3

  Barnett, Lionel, 330, 337

  Barraclough, Lieutenant Colonel, 264-6

  Barré, Général Georges, 420

  Barry, Comtesse du, 29

  Bartlett, Flight Lieutenant Christopher, 185

  Basra, 164, 166, 172, 175–7, 179, 184, 257

  Bathurst, 111, 122, 154

  Battle of Britain, 94, 147, 165, 186, 252, 257–8

  Baudouin, Paul, 92, 105, 107–8, 138, 141, 155

  Bayliss, Lieutenant, 234

  Bazookas, 386

  BBC, 6, 98, 142, 169, 263, 337, 356, 368, 370, 418, 434

  Béarn, 38

  Beaufort Castle, 202

  Beauvais, 159

  Beauvoir, Simone de, 29

  Bécourt-Foch, Capitaine Henri, 120

  Beda Fomm, 238

  Beda Littoria, 275

  Bedouin, 163-4, 174-5, 220, 225, 235, 254-6

  Beirut, 191, 211–14, 239–40, 243, 245-6, 256, 258–9, 261-5, 268–9, 272-3, 329

  Bekaa valley, 201, 233, 251

  Bel Habil, 264

  Belfast, 198, 208, 220, 375

  Belfort, 429

  Belgium, 3, 23, 24, 99, 155

  Belville, Captain, 304-5

  Benghazi, 275, 340, 356, 368, 370

  Bennett, Sergeant Martin, 214

  Benzedrine, 324

  Berchtesgaden, 271

  Berlin, 27, 130, 143, 145, 160, 183, 187, 219, 256, 355, 360, 403, 415

  Berlin–Basra railway, 184

  Bernhardt, Sarah, 9

  Bertrand, Colonel Gustave, 152-3

  Besançon University, 141

  Bestois, 412

  Béthouart, Major General Marie Émile Antoine, 410

  Bévéziers, 130, 134, 295-6, 298

  Bezard, Enseigne de vaisseau Jean-Paul, 57, 64, 80

  Biddle, Anthony, 90

  Billancourt, 275

  Billot, Lieutenant Commander Godfrey, 382-3

  Billotte, Général Pierre, 356

  Bir Hacheim, 345

  Bismarck, 185-6, 320

  Bizerte, 46, 59, 169, 370, 404, 416

  Black Forest, 396, 401

  Blackburn, Lieutenant Colonel Arthur, 230, 236, 243

  Blaskowitz, General Johannes, 416–17

  Bletchley Park, 151-3, 189, 354

  Blida airfield, 390, 393, 402

  Blitz, 146, 165, 186–7, 231

  Blomberg, Major Axel von, 180-1

  Blücher, Marshal, 35

  Blücher, 41, 43, 379

  Blum, Léon, 5, 30-1, 36, 104, 283, 350, 417

  Blunden, Edmund, 25, 27

  Bodley, John, 10

  Boer War, 9–10, 219

  Bogart, Humphrey, 415

  Boislambert, Commandant Hettier de, 111

  Boisseau, Général Robert, 408–9

  Boisson, Pierre, 96, 119–20, 123, 128, 132-3, 406, 420

  Bolitho, Captain Michael, 381, 384

  Bolshevism, 19, 30, 395

  Bombay,
115, 288, 333

  Bone, 369

  Bonnet, Georges, 28–9

  Bonnier de la Chapelle, Fernand, 426–7

  Bordeaux, 5, 26, 34, 47–9, 51, 90, 92, 309

  Bordelais, 84

  Borey, Ingénieur mécanicien Albert, 69–70, 87

  Borneo, 282

  Bosquet, Maréchal, 13

  Bougainville, 296, 298

  Bouillaut, Lieutenant de vaisseau Louis, 52-6, 101, 148–51, 154

  Boulogne, 25, 27

  Boulonnais, 411

  Bourgeois, Lieutenant Jacques de, 384

  Bourke, Major Patrick, 241-2

  Bouthillier, Finance Minister, 155

  Boutron, Lieutenant Jean, 66–7, 70-1, 75–8, 80

  Bouvier, Colonel, 225, 235-6

  Bouxin, Contre-amiral, 70-1, 79–80

  Bowling Green, Kentucky, 385

  Boys, Captain H.C., 227

  Boys anti-tank rifles, 195, 207, 212, 216, 227–9, 235, 239–40, 263, 266, 386

  Brauchitsch, Feldmarschal Walter von, 138

  Brazzaville, 11

  Breda, Comte de, 10

  Brest, 1-2, 37, 39–40, 69–70, 347, 410

  Bretagne, 58, 66–7, 70, 75-6, 78–80, 87, 185

  Briand, Aristide, 108

  Brigade Mobile, 156, 158

  Briggs, Signaller Ted, 68, 76, 82, 84-5, 185

  Brinon, Fernand de, 138–9, 155–7, 338

  Bristowe, Commander Bobby, 96–8, 118

  British army, size of, 32-3

  British Empire, 36, 112, 141, 164, 182

  British Expeditionary Forces, 2, 25, 34, 44

  British Loyalty, 333-5

  Brittany, 28, 99

  Brokensha, Sub-Lieutenant Guy, 83

  Brooke, Lieutenant General Sir Alan, 61, 146, 288, 347

  Browning, Lieutenant C., 385

  Bruce, Sergeant, 207

  Bruen, Lieutenant Bill, 83

  Brussels, 9

  Bruyckner, Suzanne de, 108

  Bryan, Lietuenant Gerald, 208–9, 211, 214, 217–18, 267, 434-5

  Buckingham Palace, 28, 60

  Buckland (batman), 342

  Buckley, Lieutenant Charles D., 385

  Buckley, Christopher, 172

  Buenos Aires, 39, 158

  Buffner, Father, 56

  Bullitt, William, 5, 27, 34, 45, 89–92, 104

  Bund, 93

  Burgundy, 309

  Burma, 289, 331, 338, 340

  Burrough, Rear Admiral Sir Harold, 364-5

  Butler, Lady Elisabeth, 232

  Cadix, 152

  Cadiz, Kentucky, 385

  Caen, 274

  Cagoulards, 30, 156

  Caillard, Médecin auxiliaire, 56

  Caillaux, Henriette, 107n

  Caillaux, Joseph, 107

  Cairo, 11, 13, 146, 172, 219, 245, 262, 413

  Caldwell, Frank, 238–9, 241

  Calvert-Jones, Lieutenant Colonel Percy, 272

  Campbell, Sergeant Patrick, 10

  Canada, 22, 26, 38, 346, 375, 379

  Canestal battery, 69

  Cannes, 114

  Cap de l’Aiguille, 399

  Cap Diego, 286

  Cape Amber, 334-5

  Cape Finistère, 70

  Cape Manuel, 111, 121, 129–31

  Cape Matapan, 171

  Cape of Good Hope, 11, 285, 331

  Cape Town, 199, 284

  Cape Tres Forcas, 168

  Cape Verde peninsula, 118

  Carlisle, Lieutenant, 302-3

  Carlton Gardens, 98, 114, 354-6

  Caro, Major Albert, 203, 206–7, 217n

  Carré, Dr Adrian, 56

  Casablanca, 46, 116, 168, 363, 371, 378, 393, 397, 400, 410–15, 418, 425

  Casablanca (film), 415

  Casablanca (ship), 421

  Cassano, Squadron Leader, 246

  Castiglione, 390

  Catherine, Ingénieur mécanicien, 54

  Catholic Church, 14–15, 70

  Catroux, Général Georges, 172-3, 192, 269, 273, 345

  Cayla, Léon, 283

  Cayol, Amiral Jean, 4, 49–50

  Ceylon, 288, 290, 330

  Chad, 112, 132, 154, 336

  Châlons, 15

  Chamberlain, Neville, 28–9, 32, 41, 43, 91, 94

  Chambrun, Count René, 106

  Chambrun, Josée, 106, 156

  Chambun, Général de, 430

  Champs-Elysées, 22-3, 32, 356

  Channel Islands, 5

  Charge of the Light Brigade, 13, 188

  Charles Plumie, 363

  Chassepot rifles, 15

  Chasseurs Alpins, 41, 43

  Chasseurs d’Afrique, 223, 227, 232, 234, 266

  Châteauroux, 144

  Châteldon, 106, 156–8, 274-5, 394, 420

  Chatterley, Naval Airman Harold, 82

  Chautemps, Camille, 31

  Cherbourg, 99, 119, 347

  Cherchell, 350, 361, 371, 388, 401

  Cheshire Yeomanry, 195-6

  Chevalier Paul, 245, 260

  China, 37, 246

  Chipstead, 197

  Churchill, Captain Randolph, 198–9, 392

  Churchill, Winston, 3, 5, 24, 33, 38, 92, 109, 149, 274, 276

  and Arab independence, 345-6

  and Blitz, 146

  and Commandos, 197, 199, 276

  and Crete, 188

  and Dakar raid, 112–14, 116–17, 128, 131, 133-5

  and Darlan, 417, 424-5

  and de Gaulle, 99, 348, 354, 356

  and Fashoda, 12

  and French fleet, 60-2, 112, 361

  and French North Africa, 347–9, 354-6, 361, 391, 412

  and Freyberg, 171

  and Greece, 170

  and Hitler’s peace offer, 110

  and Iraq, 177, 187–8

  and Madagascar, 285, 288, 330-1, 335-6, 338, 345-6, 355

  and Mers-el-Kébir, 93-5

  ‘no confidence’ vote, 337

  and Norway campaign, 40-4

  and Pétain, 141-3, 145, 154

  and Richelieu operation, 98

  and Second Front, 347

  and Spears, 19, 113

  and Syrian campaign, 172-3, 254, 270, 272

  and Western Desert, 146–7, 173, 236

  Ciano, Count, 93, 397, 403-4

  Circassian Cavalry, 191, 222

  Clarebout, Colonel Édouard, 295, 297, 326

  Clark, Colonel Charles, 349

  Clark, Major General George, 175, 255

  Clark, Captain Joe, 234-5

  Clark, General Mark, 349–54, 361, 365–7, 371-3, 387–8, 401–9, 413, 417, 424

  Clark, Corporal, 235-6

  Clavel, Capitaine, 321

  Clegg, Lance Corporal, 287–8, 305-6

  Clemenceau, Georges, 24, 27, 107

  Clermont-Ferrand, 89, 91

  Clifford, Sir Bede, 285

  Codman, Lieutenant Colonel Charles, 415

  Col de Bonne Nouvelle, 300-3, 305

  Colbert, 418

  Coldstream Guards, 147

  collaboration (the word), 144

  Collet, Colonel, 191, 222, 235, 248

  Collette, Paul, 274

  Collier’s magazine, 385

  Collinet, Capitaine de vaisseau, 77

  Comité antijuif de France, 108–9

  Commandos, 197, 199, 276

  5 Commando, 286, 289, 293, 298, 314, 320-1, 323, 329, 334-5, 341-3

  11 Scottish Commando, 191, 197–212, 214–18, 220, 227, 286

  Commandant Duboc, 127

  Commandant Teste, 58, 76, 80, 423

  Comoros Islands, 282

  Compagnies Légères de Désert, 247, 254, 256

  Compiègne forest, 2-5, 46

  Compiègne, 281

  Conakry, 113

  Conan Doyle, Arthur, 350

  concentration camps, 9

  Contes, Adjutant-chef, 184

  Contessa, 414

  contre-torpilleurs, 37

  Coode, Lieutenant Alastair, 210

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  Cooper, Duff, 29, 94, 109

  Coppet, Jules Marcel de, 283-4

  Cordier, Abbé Louis, 426–7

  Cornwallis, Sir Kinahan, 166–7, 175

  Corsica, 3, 404, 416–17, 419, 426

  Coston, Leading Airman F, 83

  Côte d’Azur, 45-6, 361, 394

  Cotton, Corporal Harry, 229

  Courtney, Captain Godfrey ‘Jumbo’, 353

  Coutts, Ben, 432, 434

  Coventry, 146–7

  Cowan, Admiral (retired) Sir Walter, 198

  Cremin, Flight Lieutenant Dan, 179

  Crescent, Lieutenant de vaisseau Émile, 47–9, 51-5, 100, 102, 149

  Crete, 170-1, 191, 387

  Crete campaign, 173, 182-3, l85–9, 199, 212–14, 234, 236, 242, 246, 249, 267, 272, 346, 365

  Crimean War, 10, 13, 16

  Croix de Feu, 30

  Cross, Lance Corporal William, 233

  Cross of Lorraine, 114, 120, 356

  Crowther, Pilot Officer Peter, 214

  Croydon airport, 197, 246

  Cunningham, Admiral Sir Andrew, 59, 93, 365-6, 368, 410, 417

  Cunningham, Admiral John, 117, 121, 123–8, 131-5, 171

  Custer, General George Armstrong, 16, 349

  Cutler, Lieutenant Roden, 234-5, 262-3

  Cyprus, 172, 186, 189, 191, 199–200, 203, 209, 245, 253

  Czechoslovakia, 28, 145n

  Dahl, Roald, 251, 267

  Dahomey, 284

  Daily Express, 220

  Daily Herald, 95

  Daily Mail, 137

  Daily Mirror, 137

  Daily Telegraph, 95, 137, 172, 432

  Dakar, 11, 38, 46, 96–8, 135-6, 168–9, 340, 360, 362, 364, 406, 411, 434

  Anglo-Gaullist raid, 111–37, 139, 146, 192, 222, 288, 351, 392

  Daladier, Édouard, 27–9, 31-2, 41

  Damascus, 181, 183, 191, 213, 220-6, 228, 230, 233, 236–44, 253-4, 264-5, 268–9, 355, 435

  Damour, 261-3, 268

  Danbé, Capitaine de vaisseau, 66, 73, 75

  Daniel, Ingénieur mécanicien, 51, 53-4, 56, 101

  Danton, Georges, 93

  d’Argenlieu, Capitaine de corvette Georges Thierry, 119–21

  Dargie, William, 264

  Darlan, Alain, 359–63, 370, 373, 405-6, 423, 427

  Darlan, Annie, 359

  Darlan, Antoine, 34

  Darlan, Berthe, 362-3, 406, 427

  Darlan, Amiral François, 5, 34–8, 40, 45, 63, 70, 141, 346

  Anglophobia, 89, 91-2, 159–60, 364, 405, 417

  and British bombing, 275

  and Dakar raid, 130

  death, 426–7, 435

  defection to Allies, 417–18, 420, 423-5

  and French dispersal, 46, 48, 59–62

  and French North Africa, 359–62, 369–73, 388–9, 392-3, 395–7, 400-3, 405–7, 409, 411, 413, 415

  and Iraq, 167, 169–70

  and Japanese, 286

  and Madagascar, 282

  meeting with Hitler, 158–60

  and Mers-el-Kébir, 64, 66–7, 74, 81, 159

  and Paris Protocols, 169, 273

  and reinstatement of Laval, 277, 360, 362

 

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