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Dunkirk: The Real Story in Photographs
Tim Lynch
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Description for Dunkirk: The Real Story in Photographs
Paperback. Operation Dynamo, and its rescues from beaches and harbour, has gone down in history as a victory from certain defeat. Here Tim Lynch presents the true story of this miraculous event using stunning, rare images from the Mirrorpix archive. Num Pages: 96 pages, 100 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JJH; AJC; HBJD; HBWQ; JWLF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 248. .
The Second World War saw heroic efforts made by the Allied forces from its very outset, but in May 1940 disaster befell the British Expeditionary Force in France. Isolated from the rest of their allies, they faced insurmountable numbers of enemy troops. All was so very nearly lost, until the German land forces were given the surprise order by Adolf Hitler to halt briefly. Taking advantage of this unexpected but welcome turn of events, the British troops fled for the beaches of Dunkirk and fortified them while the Royal Navy dispatched almost 900 ships and boats to rescue British and ... Read more
The Second World War saw heroic efforts made by the Allied forces from its very outset, but in May 1940 disaster befell the British Expeditionary Force in France. Isolated from the rest of their allies, they faced insurmountable numbers of enemy troops. All was so very nearly lost, until the German land forces were given the surprise order by Adolf Hitler to halt briefly. Taking advantage of this unexpected but welcome turn of events, the British troops fled for the beaches of Dunkirk and fortified them while the Royal Navy dispatched almost 900 ships and boats to rescue British and ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
The History Press Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
96
Place of Publication
Stroud, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780750982733
SKU
V9780750982733
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-50
About Tim Lynch
TIM LYNCH is a military historian, writer and battlefield guide. He is the author of Dunkirk 1940: Whereabouts Unknown (The History Press, 2010), the story of the troops left behind after the Dunkirk evacuation. He has also written for The History Press on Operation Market Garden and Sheffield 1914-18.
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