Part one. The years before -- The Army in Waiting, 1870-1914 -- The Test of Blood, 1914-1918 -- The Wasted Truce, 1918-1939 -- Part two: Battle and defeat -- Plan D and Plan Yellow -- Lull in the West -- The Confrontation -- Setback in Belgium -- Threat from the Ardennes -- The Neglected Front -- Breakthrough on the Meuse -- Stampede at Sedan -- The Widening Breach -- The Fateful Fifteenth -- Plan D Abandoned -- The Eclipse of Gamelin -- Weygand Takes Over -- Double Reverse: Belgium and Dunkirk -- The Battle of France -- Start of the Great Rout -- The Open City -- Swastikas over Paris -- The Chaos of Tours -- Reynaud Resigns -- Armistice.