Dunkirk
1976
First Published
3.53
Average Rating
208
Number of Pages
By late May 1940 the German Army had raced across Northern France cutting the Allied armies in two. The British Expeditionary Force,and thousands of French and Belgian soldiers, found themselves squeezed into a ever smaller pocket by the Wehrmacht while the Luftwaffe pounded them from the sky. For nine terrible days they held their ground until,eventually, they had to evacuate. A quarter of a million men battled their way across the bullet-swept beaches to ships - and escape. This is the heroic story of what is simultaneously a terrible defeat and a stirring victory.
Avg Rating
3.53
Number of Ratings
108
5 STARS
14%
4 STARS
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3 STARS
33%
2 STARS
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1 STARS
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Author
Robert Jackson
Author · 35 books
Robert Jackson was born in 1941 in the North Yorkshire village of Melsonby. A former pilot and navigation instructor, his active involvement with aviation lasted many years. Following his retirement from the RAFVR in 1977 as a squadron leader, he became a full-time aviation writer and aerospace correspondent and lectured extensively on strategic issues. He speaks five languages, including Russian, and has written more than forty nonfiction works on military affairs. He is also the author of the popular Yeoman and SAS fiction series.
