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Author | : Louise Borden |
Publisher | : Pavilion Books, Limited |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Children's stories |
ISBN | : 9781857939330 |
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Told through the eyes of a fisherman's daughter, this is the story of how, in May 1940, an 'armada' of ordinary people in their own boats joined the Royal Navy to help rescue soldiers from the beaches of Dunkirk
Author | : Nigel Sharp |
Publisher | : Amberley Publishing Limited |
Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : 2015-05-15 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 1445647516 |
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The story of how 700 small privately–owned vessels helped to save 338,226 British and French soldiers from the beaches of Dunkirk in 1940.
Author | : Philip Weir |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 113 |
Release | : 2020-10-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1784423769 |
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During 1940 the German army swept with devastating speed across the Low Countries and into northern France and drove Allied forces back into a small pocket around Dunkirk. Without a swift withdrawal across the English Channel, the latter faced certain death or capture. The evacuation plan – Operation Dynamo – initially calculated that 45,000 men might be rescued, but between 26 May and 4 June 338,226 men were in fact brought back to England. Naval historian Philip Weir shows how this was made possible by a vast armada of disparate vessels including destroyers, minesweepers, fishing vessels and, most famously of all, the privately owned 'Little Ships'. He explores the vessels' various roles within the evacuation, and their subsequent fates, including preservation and participation in commemorative return runs to the port, which now take place every five years.
Author | : Louise Borden |
Publisher | : White Lion Publishing |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Children's stories |
ISBN | : 9781847800817 |
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The dramatic story of the historic rescue of over 300,000 men from the beach of Dunkirk.
Author | : Christian Brann |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Dunkerque (France), Battle of, 1940 |
ISBN | : 9780946604029 |
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Author | : Louise Borden |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 40 |
Release | : 1997-04 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : |
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A young English girl and her father take their sturdy fishing boat and join the scores of other civilian vessels crossing the English Channel in a daring attempt to rescue Allied and British troops trapped by Nazi soldiers at Dunkirk.
Author | : Walter Lord |
Publisher | : Open Road Media |
Total Pages | : 478 |
Release | : 2012-03-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1453238506 |
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The true story of the World War II evacuation portrayed in the Christopher Nolan film Dunkirk, by the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Day of Infamy. In May 1940, the remnants of the French and British armies, broken by Hitler’s blitzkrieg, retreated to Dunkirk. Hemmed in by overwhelming Nazi strength, the 338,000 men gathered on the beach were all that stood between Hitler and Western Europe. Crush them, and the path to Paris and London was clear. Unable to retreat any farther, the Allied soldiers set up defense positions and prayed for deliverance. Prime Minister Winston Churchill ordered an evacuation on May 26, expecting to save no more than a handful of his men. But Britain would not let its soldiers down. Hundreds of fishing boats, pleasure yachts, and commercial vessels streamed into the Channel to back up the Royal Navy, and in a week nearly the entire army was ferried safely back to England. Based on interviews with hundreds of survivors and told by “a master narrator,” The Miracle of Dunkirk is a striking history of a week when the outcome of World War II hung in the balance (Arthur Schlesinger Jr.).
Author | : Russell Plummer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Hugh Sebag-Montefiore |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 720 |
Release | : 2007-05-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0141906162 |
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* * * Special 75th Anniversary Edition * * * Hugh Sebag-Montefiore's Dunkirk: Fight to the Last Man tells the story of the rescue in May 1940 of British soldiers fleeing capture and defeat by the Nazis at Dunkirk. Dunkirk was not just about what happened at sea and on the beaches. The evacuation would never have succeeded had it not been for the tenacity of the British soldiers who stayed behind to ensure they got away. Men like Sergeant Major Gus Jennings who died smothering a German stick bomb in the church at Esquelbecq in an effort to save his comrades, and Captain Marcus Ervine-Andrews VC who single-handedly held back a German attack on the Dunkirk perimeter thereby allowing the British line to form up behind him. Told to stand and fight to the last man, these brave few battalions fought in whatever manner they could to buy precious time for the evacuation. Outnumbered and outgunned, they launched spectacular and heroic attacks time and again, despite ferocious fighting and the knowledge that for many only capture or death would end their struggle. 'A searing story . . . both meticulous military history and a deeply moving testimony to the extraordinary personal bravery of individual soldiers' Tim Gardam, The Times 'Sebag-Montefiore tells [the story] with gusto, a remarkable attention to detail and an inexhaustible appetite for tracking down the evidence' Richard Ovary, Telegraph Hugh Sebag-Montefiore was a barrister before becoming a journalist and then an author. He wrote the best-selling Enigma: The Battle for the Code. One of his ancestors was evacuated from Dunkirk.
Author | : Margaret Mayhew |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : World War, 1939-1945 |
ISBN | : 9780727860262 |
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Before the war it was just a few of them who went sailing on the North Sea estuary in their little boat. Guy, who was so handsome and so good at everything; Matt, his younger brother, who was determined not to be a cripple; and Lizzie, their small shy cousin who adored them both. They were later joined by two more Anna, a young Jewish refugee from Vienna, and Otto, sent from Berlin to an English public school in order to spy for his Nazi father. As time passed, the tensions between them grew. Otto and Guy became fierce rivals at school and despite his ingrained hatred of her race, Otto found himself fascinated by the beautiful Anna who despised him for his beliefs as much as she mocked Guy's conceit. Matt struggled to overcome his secret terror of the sea, while Lizzie battled with her jealousy of Anna. But there was one perfect summer's day when they sailed together on the sunny blue water and, in unaccustomed amity, carved their initials on the port bow of the Rose of England. Then the war exploded all around them. It was May 1940 when their paths crossed again, on the desperate retreat from Dunkirk, when the little ship, against all the odds, sailed to the rescue.