Buy this book on-line ATKIN**, RONALD: : PILLAR OF FIRE - DUNKIRK 1940LONDON.SIDGWICK & JACKSON,1990. ISBN 0283996978.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Very light creasing to dw/dj edges - shelf-wear? Photographic dw/dj.Black paper-covered boards with gilt letters to spine/backstrip and plain white eps.8vo, 256pp includes b/w map,8pp b/w photographs,source notes,a bibliography and an index.
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 new European 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 its hands.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 chaotic and desperate weeks is
dramatically chronicled through the diaries,memoirs and personal reminiscences
of hundreds of men who lived through them
- from COs to foot soldiers and generals to privates.The Imperial War Museum has been building up these archives of contemporary recollections over the last fifty years and Atkin is the first person to make use of their new research in such depth and set it in context of the military operations.Fifty years on,at last the full story can be told of the first major turning point in a war which, until then,had gone in only one direction
- Germany's.
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