Alone: Britain, Churchill, and Dunkirk : defeat into victory
"Combining epic history with rich family stories, Michael Korda chronicles the outbreak of World War II and the great events that led to Dunkirk. In an absorbing work peopled with world leaders, generals, and ordinary citizens who fought on both sides of World War II, Alone brings to resounding...
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| Zusammenfassung: | "Combining epic history with rich family stories, Michael Korda chronicles the outbreak of World War II and the great events that led to Dunkirk. In an absorbing work peopled with world leaders, generals, and ordinary citizens who fought on both sides of World War II, Alone brings to resounding life perhaps the most critical year of twentieth-century history. For, indeed, May 1940 was a month like no other, as the German war machine blazed into France while the supposedly impregnable Maginot Line crumbled, and Winston Churchill replaced Neville Chamberlain as prime minister in an astonishing political drama as Britain, isolated and alone, faced a triumphant Nazi Germany. Against this vast historical canvas, Michael Korda relates what happened and why, and also tells his own story, that of a six-year-old boy in a glamorous movie family who would himself be evacuated. Alone is a work that seamlessly weaves a family memoir into an unforgettable account of a political and military disaster redeemed by the evacuation of more than 300,000 men in four days...surely one of the most heroic episodes of the war. "The incredible, almost miraculous story of what happened at Dunkirk in the year 1940...and why...is unfolded in Alone with great narrative skill and superb delineation of a highly interesting cast of characters, including, importantly, the author himself and his own remarkable family." ... David McCullough |
| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Prologue: “The Past Is a Foreign Country ”
xiii
1. To the Brink 3
2. The Failure of Diplomacy 27
3. “Speak for England!” 46
4. The Phoney War 55
5. Operation Pied Piper 75
6. Case Yellow 83
7. “Gad, Gentlemen, Here’s to Our Greatest
Victory of the War” 103
8. Hitler “Missed the Bus” 116
9. “In the Name of God, Go” 124
10. “The Top of the Greasy Pole” 149
11. Rommel Crosses the Meuse 164
12. “We Are Beaten; We Have Lost the Battle” 175
13. “The Mortal Gravity of the Hour” 187
XII · Contents
14. May 20, 1940: “A Pretty Fair Pig of a Day” 197
15. “The Fatal Slope” 209
16. “Hard and Heavy Tidings” 218
17. The Sharp End of the Stick 228
18. The Battle of Arras: “We May Be foutu” 245
19. “Their Zest and Delight in Shooting
Germans Was Most Entertaining” 259
20. The Burghers of Calais 277
21. “Fight It Out to the Bitter End” 290
22. Flag Officer, Dover 301
25. The Home Front 307
24. “Presume Troops Know They Are
Cutting Their Way Home to Blighty” 322
25. Dynamo 338
26. “Fight It Out, Here or Elsewhere” 351
27. Holding the Line 368
28. “The Little Ships” 379
29. “The Best Mug of Tea I Have Ever
Had in My Life” 397
30. “Arm in Arm” 412
31. “We Are Going to Beat Them” 425
32. The Dunkirk Spirit 439
33. At Sea 453
Acknowledgments 463
Notes 465
Bibliography 483
List of Illustrations 491
Index 499
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