“So long as the English language survives, the word Dunkirk will be spoken with reverence.” The New York Times
Dunkirk: The Complete Story of the First Step in the Defeat of Hitler (The Face of Battle Book 3)
– Learn MoreAt dawn on May 10, 1940, the armies of Nazi Germany attacked Western Europe.
In less than three weeks, Hitler achieved the most extraordinary military triumph of modern times: Holland, Luxembourg, and Belgium had been overrun; the French army was about to collapse; and the entire British Expeditionary Force, which had been sent across the Channel to help stop the Germans, was trapped against the sea at Dunkirk.
Unless they could be rescued, Britain would be left without an army.
Dunkirk is the first book to present an overview of those awful days and show the effect the battle on the beaches was having on the rest of the world.
It is also the day-by-day story of a great escape, of the transformation of a massive defeat into what would ultimately prove a disaster for Germany.