The Papers of Sir Edward Spears

Documents relating to events in France, including: note by Major-General Harold Redman, former member of the War Cabinet Secretariat, on the Paris Secretariat in 1939-40; letters from Armando da Gama Ochoa, from the Portuguese Legation in Paris, to Arnold Inman, on the situation in Paris and reasons for the fall of France (1937-41); press cartoons; information from Maurice Dejean on German sympathisers in the cabinet of Paul Reynaud [Prime Minister of France]; press cuttings with letters from Field Marshal 1st Lord Ironside and Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Pownall on the fall of France; supplement to the London Gazette with despatches from 6th Lord Gort, Commander-in-Chief of the British Expeditionary Force, 1939-40.