Download or read book Assignment To Catastrophe. Vol. 1, Prelude To Dunkirk. July 1939-May 1940 written by Major-General Sir Edward Louis Spears and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-15 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The German victory in France at the onset of the Second World War was sudden, brutal and brilliant; by contrast the British and French preparations were miserable, faulty, badly carried through and fraught with mistrust. In the midst of these Allied responses was the eminent liaison officer Major-General Sir Edward Louis Spears, sent by the new prime Minister Winston Churchill to be his representative to the French Prime Minister. Spears was very well suited to his role as he had seen much military service and he had served in a senior liaison capacity between the British and French armies during the First World War. Keenly observant, well connected, urbane and respected by many of the French politicians and generals, his two volume memoirs are justly famous.