re: #76 wheat-dogg

You mean The Collapse of the Third Republic: An Inquiry into the Fall of France in 1940, I think.

Yes, apologies to all, I was quoting from (imperfect) memory.

Except for the detailed battle plans which were frankly beyond me, I found the book hugely informative and there are many parallels with what has happened here, to similarly lead us to our own soon-to-be-inaugurated Vichy regime.