A volume from the Campaign Chronicles series. After the 25-page account of the background to the Western campaign of May and June 1940, which also explains the planning and military requirements of all the forces involved (German, French, British, Belgian and Dutch), the chronological description of the political and above all military events between 10 May 1940, the first day of the attack, and 24 June 1940, the day on which the armistice came into force, begins.