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Dunkirk : the history behind the major motion picture

Levine, Joshua, 1970- author

Overview

The Battle of Dunkirk, in May/June 1940, is remembered as a stunning defeat, yet a major victory as well. The Nazis had beaten back the Allies and pushed them across France to the northern port of Dunkirk. In the ultimate race against time, more than 300,000 Allied soldiers were daringly evacuated across the Channel. This moment of German aggression was used by Winston Churchill as a call to Franklin Roosevelt to enter the war. Now, historian Joshua Levine explores the real lives of those soldiers, bombed and strafed on the beaches for days on end, without food or ammunition; the civilians whose boats were overloaded; the airmen who risked their lives to buy their companions on the ground precious time; and those who did not escape.

• Publisher: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
• Subject: Dunkirk, Battle of (Dunkerque, France : 1940) / World War (1939-1945) / Dunkirk (Motion picture : 2017) / 1939-1945 / Dunkirk, Battle of, Dunkerque, France, 1940. / World War, 1939-1945 Campaigns France. / World War, 1939-1945 Personal narratives, British. / HISTORY Europe Western. / HISTORY Military World War II. / HISTORY Modern 20th Century. / Military campaigns. / France. / France Dunkerque.
• ISBN: 9780062740304, 9780062792143, 006274030X, 0062792148

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
D756.5.D8 L48 2017	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE