To Lose a Battle (105 page)

Montgomery, General Bernard,
289
,
402
,
546
,
636

Monthermé,
208
,
305
,
333
,
335
,
366–8
,
380–1
,
415
,
432
,
680

Montry,
166–7
,
370
,
440
,
557

Most, Lieutenant,
327–8
,
579–80

Mouzaive,
300
,
302

Moy,
497
,
501

Munich Agreement,
124
,
133–4

Muray, Jean,
362
,
519–20

Mussolini, Benito,
628
,
647–8

Napoleon I,
86
,
161

Napoleon III,
53
,
105
,
141
,
304
,
356

Narvik,
181
,
213
,
215
,
218
,
462

Needham, Major-General,
431

Neufchâteau,
264–5
,
284–7

Neuville,
414

Newall, Air Chief Marshal, Sir Cyril,
462

Nicholson, Brigadier C. N.,
598

Nicolson, Harold,
168
,
221
,
224

Nives,
264

Noël, Maurice,
526

Norway,
213–18
,
627
,
635

Nouvion, Le,
470

Nouzonville,
335
,
381–2
,
468

Oise, River,
468
,
470
,
474
,
479
,
486
,
496–7
,
500–1
,
512

Onhaye,
373–8
,
379

‘Operation Niwi’,
264–5
,
284

‘Operation Red’,
612
,
617

‘Operation Sea-Lion’,
670

Oster, Colonel Hans,
201
,
247
,
251

Osterkamp, Theo,
260

Ourthe, River,
276–7
,
281–2

Overstraeten, General van,
296
,
584–5
,
587–9

Palewski, Gaston,
155

Paris: Victory Parade (1919),
45–54
; strikes,
54
,
109–10
; Left-wing demonstrations,
54
; Right-wing demonstrations,
104–5
; deserted at Munich,
134
; fashionable distractions,
136
,
146–8
,
248
,
450–1
; outbreak of war,
138
; spurious normality,
248–9
,
450–1
,
454
,
667–8
; German threat to,
443
,
448–50
; fear of disorder,
443
,
448–9
; whether to evacuate,
448–50
; panic,
454–5
; relief,
509–10
,
535
; spy-mania,
527
; prayers,
550
,
619
; optimism over Weygand,
618
; apathetic,
618
; capitulation of,
635
; bombed, Government leaves,
644–5
; ‘open city’,
645
; Germans enter,
646
; Grossdeutschland service in Notre-Dame,
669

Paris, Major von,
581

Paulus, General,
611

‘P. C. Bruno’,
634
,
635
,
636

Péronne,
508
,
512
,
517
,
538
,
541
,
562
,
639
,
641
,
643

Perré, Colonel,
470
,
534–5

Perré, Lieutenant,
470

Pertinax, André,
101
,
112
,
129
,
163
,
221
,
442
,
645

Perwez,
370
,
402

Pétain, Marshal Philippe: at Victory Parade (1919),
51
,
52–3
; on ‘continuous front’,
71
,
114
; on ‘advance into Belgium’,
75
; ‘Instruction’ on tanks,
79
; Minister of Defence,
105
,
114
; reputation,
114–15
; on ‘impenetrable’ Ardennes,
114
,
238
; on air power and armour,
114–15
; against armoured divisions,
116
; and Georges,
167
; and Herriot,
219–20
; and Corap,
323
; Reynaud recalls,
510
; visits Georges and Gamelin,
536–7
; Deputy Premier, Spears on,
537–8
; a symbol,
556
,
564
,
590
; Werth on,
557
; and Weygand,
566
,
622
,
630
; and ‘separate peace’ lobby,
624–9
,
652–4
; ‘pathetic’,
653–4
; forms Government, and Armistice,
660–1
,
663–5
; later career,
679–80

Petiet, General,
469
,
490

Petitbon, Colonel,
271
,
441
,
445
,
463

Petre, Major-General R. L.,
561

Philby, ‘Kim’,
289

Philip, Percy,
526

Philippeville,
379
,
407
,
410–11
,
414
,
430

‘Phoney War’,
138–60
,
177
,
236–9
,
247–50
,
517

Poincaré, Raymond,
47
,
53
,
60–1
,
68

Poland,
81
,
134–7
,
140–4
,
176–9
,
184
,
240
,
322
,
344
,
360
,
361
,
528
,
634
,
673

Polnay, Peter de,
529

Poncelet, Colonel,
359

Pontarlier,
647

Popular Front,
107–8
,
112
,
128–9
,
132–3

Portes, Comtesse Héléne de,
130
,
223–6
,
444
,
625
,
628
,
652
,
654–6
,
660
,
679

Pownall, General Sir Henry,
296
,
568

Prételat, General G.,
143
,
244

Prioux, General R.,
166
,
175
,
272–3
,
290
,
295–6
,
369–70
,
402–3
,
507
,
513
,
524
,
547
,
575–6
,
577
,
589
,
598
,
616–17
,
678