By last week some 200,000 men of the British Expeditionary Force were across the Channel and safely in place. They continued arriving by night, three or four transports at a time, without interruptions. German submarines and the great German Air Force did not even throw a leaflet at themjust as the Allies did little to prevent the Germans from bringing up hundreds of thousands of men and tons of supplies to man the West-wall.
No one officially said where the B. E. F. was stationed, but everyone knew: on France's low-lying Belgian border from...
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