France, Belgium, and Netherlands campaign, 1939-1940

War in the West: Politics and diplomacy

Alexander, Martin S. The Republic in Danger: General Maurice Gamelin and the Politics of French Defence, 1933-1940. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993

Ansel, Walter. Hitler Confronts England. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1960

Bell, P. M. H. A Certain Eventuality: Britain and the Fall of France. London: Saxon, 1974

Benoist-Mechin, Jacques. Sixty Days that Shook the West: The Fall of France, 1940. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1963

Blatt, Joel (editor). The French Defeat of 1940: Reassessments. New York: Berghahn Books, 1998

Bond, Brian. France and Belgium, 1939-1940. London: Davis-Poynter, 1975

Chapman, Guy. Why France Fell: The Defeat of the French Army in 1940. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1968

Diamond, Hanna. Fleeing Hitler: France 1940. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007

Dougherty, James J. The Politics of Wartime Aid: American Economic Assistance to France and French Northwest Africa, 1940-1946. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1978

Ferguson, Peter. Darkness in Paris: The Allies and the Eclipse of France, 1940. Carlton North, Aus: Scribe Publications, 2007

Fonvieille-Alquier, Francois. The French and the Phoney War, 1939-1940. London: Stacey, 1973

Gates, Eleanor M. End of the Affair: The Collapse of the Anglo-French Alliance, 1939-1940. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1981

Gunsburg, Jeffery. Divided and Conquered: The French High Command and the Defeat of the West, 1940. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1979

Haight Jr., John. American Aid to France, 1938-1940. New York: Atheneum, 1970

Ironside, Sir Edmund. Time Unguarded: The Ironside Diaries, 1937-1940. New York: McKay, 1963

Irving, David. Hitler's War. New York: Avon Books, 1990

Jackson, Julian. The Fall of France: The Nazi Invasion of 1940. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003

Keyes, Roger. Outrageous Fortune: King Leopold III of the Belgians, volume 1: 1901-1940. London: Tom Donovan Publishing, Ltd, 1990

Kiesling, Eugenia C. Arming against Hitler: France and the Limits of Military Planning. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 1996

Kimche, Jon. The Unfought Battle. New York: Stein and Day, 1968

Kleffens, Eelco Nicolaas van. Juggernaut over Holland. New York: Columbia University Press, 1941

Maass, Walter. The Netherlands at War: 1940-1945. London: Abelard-Schuman, 1970

Maier, Klaus A. et al. Germany's Initial Conquests in Europe. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991

Osborn, Patrick R. Operation Pike: Britain versus the Soviet Union, 1939-1941. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2000

Pertinax. Grave Diggers of France. New York: Doubleday, 1944

Ponting, Clive. 1940: Myth and Reality. Chicago: Dee, 1990

Remy. The Eighteenth Day: The Tragedy of King Leopold III of Belgium. New York: Everest House, 1978

Risser, Nicole Dombrowski. France under Fire: German Invasion, Civilian Flight and Family Survival during World War II. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2012

Scheck, Raffael. Hitler's African Victims: The German Army Massacres of Black French Soldiers in 1940. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2006

Shachtman, Tom. The Phony War, 1939-1940. New York: Harper and Row, 1982

Shirer, William L. The Collapse of the Third Republic: An Inquiry into the Fall of France in 1940. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1969

Smart, Nick. British Strategy and Politics during the Phony War: Before the Balloon Went Up. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press and Praeger Publishers, 2003

Spears, Edward. Fall of France, June 1940. New York: A. A. Wyn, 1955

Spears, Edward. Prelude to Dunkirk, July 1939 - May 1940. New York: A. A. Wyn, 1954

Taylor, Telford. The March of Conquest: German Victories in Western Europe, 1940. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1958

Truchet, Andre. L'Armistice de 1940 et L'Afrique du Nord. Paris: Plon, 1955

Vanwelkenhuyzen, Jean. Neutralite Armee: La Politique Militaire de la Belgique pendant la Drole de Guerre. Bruxelles: Renaissance du Livre, 1979

Woodward, Sir Llewellyn. British Foreign Policy in the Second World War, volume 1. London: HMSO, 1970

Young, Robert J. France and the Origins of the Second World War. New York: St Martin's Press, 1996

Young, Robert J. In Command of France. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1978

Zahniser, Marvin R. Then Came Disaster: France and the United States, 1918-1940. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press and Praeger Publishers, 2002

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