Pillar of Fire: Dunkirk, 1940

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Автор: Ronald Atkin

Название: Pillar of Fire: Dunkirk, 1940

Издательство: Birlinn Ltd

ISBN: 1909869112

Год: 2013

Формат: EPUB

Размер: 1,4 МБ

Язык: Английский

Количество страниц: 320

Описание: In the space of three and a half weeks during May and early June 1940, the armed forces of Nazi Germany came breathtakingly close to winning the war, only ten months after it had begun.

The British Expeditionary Force and its French and Belgian allies were cut off in the north and driven back to the very sands of the Channel and the ruins of Dunkirk, the lone port still in their hands. The BEF – and Britain – faced disaster.

How that catastrophe was averted, through a combination of enemy blunders and British resourcefulness, is told here by Ronald Atkin, in an account that exposes the myth of the ‘miracle of Dunkirk’. The true story of those desperate and chaotic weeks is dramatically chronicled through the diaries, memoirs and personal reminiscences of the men who lived through them, from generals to foot soldiers.

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