Twenty wasted years -- Into Belgium : first shocks -- Back to the Escaut and disaster on the BEF's southern flank -- Counter-stroke at Arras -- Fighting on two fronts -- Boulogne and Calais -- The withdrawal : II Corps on the eastern flank -- The withdrawal : fighting the Panzers on the western flank -- Comings and goings at Dunkirk -- The end at Dunkirk -- The final battles -- Reckoning -- Appendices. A, Allied land force order of battle, as at 10 May 1940 ; B, Allied land force order of battle, as at 12 May 1940 ; C, British and Allied troops landed in England from Dunkirk, 27 May to 4 June 1940.