In early June 1940, the French army was able to reconstruct a continuous front along the Somme and Aisne. Unfortunately, his starving numbers do little more than allow it to occupy the villages turned into closed support points, the intervals being somewhat protected. Weygand hope this small device will give him ten days that it considers necessary to constitute a more robust defense but the Wehrmacht on the organization decides otherwise by launching June 5 the second phase of operations.
It was these pathetic days during which the French divisions were sacrificed in a battle whose outcome was beyond doubt, that this book is intended to relate, day by day. (author's text).