To Lose a Battle (99 page)

Ciney,
273
,
282
,
307
,
308

Clairfayts,
474
,
475

Clemenceau, Georges,
45
,
47
,
53
,
59–62
,
555

Cojeul, River,
577–8

Colville, ‘Jock’,
636

Commune: influence of,
102
,
108
; fear of,
443
,
652

Communists, French,
55
,
62
,
106–11
,
117–18
,
132–3
,
134
,
137
,
156–60
,
448–9
,
455
,
533

Compiègne,
562
,
609
,
663–6

Conill, Sergeant-Gunner,
297–8

Conrad, Florence,
235–6
,
342
,
360

Corap, General, character, career,
323–4
; in Dyle-Breda Plan,
174
; and Ninth Army,
188
,
233–5
,
273–4
,
300
,
306
,
310
,
329–33
,
373
,
377–80
,
392–4
; Brooke on,
234–5
; withdraws,
406–7
; attempts to re-form,
413
; Army breaks up,
414
,
418
; sacked,
429
; failure to reinforce,
440
; visits Gamelin,
554
; in Amiens,
560
; Reynaud condemns,
590
,
678
; later career,
678

Cot, Pierre,
125–6

Coulommiers,
164
,
434
,
504

Courbiere, Senior Lieutenant von,
351–2

Couvin,
413

Crécy-sur-Serre,
501
,
537

Croix de Feu
,
104–5
,
107
,
226
,
555

Czechoslovakia,
133–4

Daladier, Édouard: character, career,
220–2
; resigns (1934),
105
; in Popular Front,
107–8
; complacency,
116
; distrusts professional army,
117
; and Munich,
133–4
; boasts of low casualties,
153
; and Gamelin,
164
,
227
,
442–3
,
510
,
536–7
; lack of authority,
164
; and Reynaud,
168
,
223
,
225–6
,
445
; and Finnish war,
181–2
; Government falls,
182
,
219
; Bonnet and Herriot,
219–20
; and ‘softs’,
220
; meeting with Belgians,
296
; and threat to Paris,
448–50
; the ‘unpardonable mistake’,
457
; Churchill exhorts,
460–1
,
548
; Foreign Minister,
538
; later career,
678

Darlan, Admiral,
633

Dautry, Raoul,
139–40
,
232
,
449

Davy, Lieutenant Colonel George,
621

‘Declaration of Union’,
659
,
681

Denain, General,
125

Denmark,
214–15
,
635

‘Deployment Directive Yellow’ (
Aufmarschanweisung Gelb
),
185–94
,
197
,
201–2

Deuxième Bureau
: on Panzers,
113
; on German strength,
119
,
229–30
; split,
166
; on Hitler’s plans,
169
; on German tactics in Poland,
178
; and Belgian plans,
242
; on German order of battle,
245–6
,
292
; and Goering’s speech,
247
; and Sedan,
370
; and German thrust to Channel,
534

Dieppe,
642

Dietl, General,
217
,
218

Dijon,
659

Dill, General Sir John,
447
,
462
,
547
,
567
,
592

Dinant,
207–8
,
274
,
306–7
,
308
,
324
,
326
,
373
,
680
,
683

Dizy-le-Gros,
469
,
491

Donchery,
334
,
354–8
,
387
,
391

Dorgelès, Roland,
362

Douaumont, Fort,
69
,
73–4
,
266
,
381

Doullens,
517
,
561
,
577

Doumenc, General Aimé,
166
,
331–2
,
370–1
,
378
,
393
,
440
,
479
,
529
,
536
,
551

Doumergue, Gaston,
105
,
114

Dowding, Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh,
434
,
446
,
462
,
627

Duffet, General,
333
,
412–13
,
473

Dunkirk,
548
,
549
,
587
,
596–618
,
620
,
625
,
631–4

Dutourd, Jean,
672

Dyle, River,
171
,
174–5
,
290
,
295
,
296
,
369
,
430

Dyle-Breda Plan,
171
,
173–7
,
203
,
234
,
272
,
281
,
290–1

‘Dynamo’,
550
,
614

Eben Emael, Fort,
170
,
267–71
,
272

Echternach,
262

Eden, Anthony,
603–4
,
678

Ehrenburg, Ilya,
157
,
645
,
668

‘Enigma’ decoding machine,
634
,
635
,
636

Escaut River,
170
,
369
,
431
,
508
,
546
,
588
,
600

Esch-sur-Alzette,
262
,
275
,
285

Étalle,
274

Etchberrigaray, General,
393
,
425

Fabre-Luce, A.,
141
,
145
,
148
,
150
,
180
,
248
,
523
,
527
,
644

Ferdonnet, Paul,
130
,
154–5
,
218

Ferté-sous-Jouarre, La: .H.Q. N.E. Front,
166
,
168
,
272
,
313
,
370–1
,
437–43
,
448
,
508–9
,
534
; army fugitives at,
520

Fifth Column: origin,
129
; bogy,
129–32
,
270–1
,
290–1
,
312
,
362
,
396
,
523–32
,
619
; ‘false orders’ given by,
525
,
529
; facts,
524–5
,
530–2