Diplomatic history of World War II in the Dunkirk evacuation in late May/early June 1940. Tens of thousands of tanks, trucks and artillery guns were left behind, as well as all of the radios, machine guns, rifles, tents, spare parts and other gear. The new Prime Minister Winston Churchill pledged that Britain would continue to fight for France's freedom, even if it must do so alone. After Mers el Kebir, Britain recognised Free France as its ally and the legitimate government of France. The United States maintained diplomatic relations with Vichy (until late 1942) and avoided recognition of de Gaulle's claim to be the one and
Sixty Million Frenchmen Can't Be Wrong the French, "The Bonjour Effect: The Secret Codes of French Conversation Revealed" (St. Martin's Press, 2016). This new book is not an update of "Sixty Million Frenchmen Can't Be Wrong", but it uses a similar approach to analyze and describe the way the French talk – about small things and big issues, themselves and the world around them, including their own taboos. "Sixty Million Frenchmen Can't Be Wrong" inspired the authors' second book, "The Story of French", (St. Martin’s Press, Knopf Canada and Anova-Robson Books, 2006), a history of French language as it's spoken across the planet. There are two