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Description
Describes the evacuation of Dunkirk in 5/40 based on interviews with participants, official correspondence & archive material.
Foreword
The closing trap
No. 17 turns up
"Operation Dynamo"
Buying time
"Plenty troops, few boats"
The gap
Torpedoes in the night
Assault from the sky
The little ships
"Bras-Dessus, Bras-Dessous!"
Holding the perimeter
"I have never prayed so hard before"
"BEF evacuated"
The last night
Deliverance
Written Source Materials
Acknowledgments
List of Contributors
Index
Describes the evacuation of Dunkirk in 5/40 based on interviews with participants, official correspondence & archive material.
Foreword
The closing trap
No. 17 turns up
"Operation Dynamo"
Buying time
"Plenty troops, few boats"
The gap
Torpedoes in the night
Assault from the sky
The little ships
"Bras-Dessus, Bras-Dessous!"
Holding the perimeter
"I have never prayed so hard before"
"BEF evacuated"
The last night
Deliverance
Written Source Materials
Acknowledgments
List of Contributors
Index
Reviews