Dunkirk: the history behind the major motion picture
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 a...
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| Zusammenfassung: | 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 |
| Beschreibung: | "Originally published as Dunkirk in Great Britain in 2017 by William Collins."--Title page verso |
| Beschreibung: | 354 Seiten, 8 ungezählte Seiten Bildtafeln Illustrationen, Karte |
| ISBN: | 9780062740304 |
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Preface 1
*1 Don’t See It as a War Film. I See It as a
Survival Story’: An Interview between
Joshua Levine and Director Christopher Nolan 5
1 Survival 19
2 Quite Like Us 39
3 The Long and the Short and the Tall 74
4 High Hopes 103
5 Fighting Back 135
6 Halting the Panzers 158
7 Escape to Dunkirk 189
8 No Sign of a Miracle 211
9 A Miracle 243
10 Where’s the Bloody RAF? 274
11 A New Dunkirk 300
Illustration Credits 341
Acknowledgements 343
Select Bibliography 347
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