Several books have been written about

Operation "Merkur" , but this one is the first to be written

by a Frenchman who presents the battle through

the eyewitness accounts of the German

paratroopers and those facing them,

the soldiers of the British Expeditionary Force.

This book, lively and precise, is also the first to show

more than 400 unpublished and unique photographs

of the preparation and the operation itself ; it also presents detailed

organograms of the forces present.

It will take the reader into the heart of the action.