Peter Weston
Special Operations
The Next Moon: The Remarkable True Story of a British Agent Behind The Lines in Wartime France
By André Hue, Ewen Southby-Tailyour
Viking 320pp £17.99 order from our bookshop
THE EARLY SUMMER days of 1940 were dark for Britain. They were darker still for France and Frenchmen everywhere. On the afternoon of 17 June, General Charles de Gaulle, then a junior minister in Reynaud’s government, flew to London. That evening he made his memorable broadcast – France, with its vast empire, and with Britain’s support, would fight on. Later, Churchill, his French almost incomprehensible, urged Frenchmen to continue the struggle.
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