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By 21 May the spearhead of the German military offensive in north-western France had reached the English Channel near to the port of Abbéville, closing an armoured noose around the men of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) who found themselves trapped in a narrow salient between the French port of Boulogne and Ostende on the […]

The British preparation for events in Scandinavia roughly paralleled that of Germany. But a democracy, by its very nature, lacks the clear-cut direction of a dictatorship. The alliance with France had its centre on the Western front. The French were regarded as equal partners in the Supreme War Council, but in Scandinavian matters seem to […]