Volume 48, Number 4 · March 8, 2001
What If?
By M.F. Perutz
Five Days in London, May 1940
by John Lukacs
Yale University Press, 236 pp., $19.95
At dawn on May 10, 1940, Hitler's armies broke into Belgium and Holland. That same afternoon Winston Churchill took office as prime minister of Great Britain. At 7:30 AM on May 15, Paul Reynaud, the French premier, woke Churchill with the news that German tanks were pouring into France across the Ardennes at Sedan. France, he said, was beaten.[1]
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