Pillar of fire : Dunkirk 1940 / Ronald Atkin.
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TextPublisher: London : Sidgwick and Jackson, 1990Description: 256 pages, [8] pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0283996978 (hbk)
- D756.5.D8 A75 1990
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UAE Federation Library | مكتبة اتحاد الإمارات General Collection | المجموعات العامة | D756.5.D8 A75 1990 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | C.1 | Library Use Only | داخل المكتبة فقط | 30010000258043 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-251) and index.
In the space of three and a half weeks during May and early June 1940, the armed forces of Nazi Germany came close to winning. The British Expeditionary Force were isolated, driven back to the sands of the Channel and the lone port of Dunkirk and Britain faced catastrophe. How that catastrophe was averted through a combination of enemy blunders and British resourcefulness is told here by Ronald Atkin. This is the story of the journey of the British Expeditionary Force from hope to despair, to triumph in the midst of defeat. Over 300,000 men were taken off the beaches of Dunkirk, and it was they who became the nucleus of the armies which swept Nazism from Europe.
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