Dunkirk
The British Evacuation, 1940

by (author)
Robert Jackson

USED BOOK

CONDITION

Good (G): Describes the average used worn book that has all pages or leaves present. Any defects will be noted on the listing.

Foxed / Foxing - Brown spotting of the paper caused by a chemical reaction, generally found in 19th century books, particularly in steel engravings of the period.

Hardcover in dust jacket.

DESCRIPTION

This is the story of the dark days of 1940, when defeat overtook the British Expeditionary Force in Flanders and the ghost of the great army came home from France.

It is the story of a lost campaign, as untried young men armed with little more than rifles took on the might of Hitler's panzer divisions while the Allied armies crumbled on all sides.

It is the story of French soldiers too, whose heroism and sacrifice made the deliverance of Dunkirk possible.

It was the greatest disaster in British military history: the Second World War was all but lost.

Yet from the rout rose that legendary spririt that somehow found triumph in defeat, success in the extraordinary evacuation of so many men from beneath the German guns.

Robert Jackson's closely detailed account of three weeks of battle, and the nine days it took an armada of ships to evacuate 198,000 troops, recalls with startling clarity how unprepared were the British for war in 1940.

PROD CODE : 9781898800095-C1