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Author | : Louise Borden |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 1999-05-20 |
Genre | : Dunkerque (France), Battle of, 1940 |
ISBN | : 9781862053472 |
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May 1940: 500,000 British and French troops are trapped in northern France by the Nazis. Their only escape is the sea, and an incredible armada of 800 craft known as the little ships. This is the story of a young girl and her father, who sail from Deal to Normandy to lend their help.
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 | : 112 |
Release | : 2020-10-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1784423734 |
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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 | : Christian Brann |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Dunkerque (France), Battle of, 1940 |
ISBN | : 9780946604029 |
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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.
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Features the Association of Dunkirk Little Ships (ADLS), an organization of owners of pleasure craft used by the British navy to fight Germany during World War II. Offers a list of the ships, upcoming events featuring Dunkirk Little Ships, and information on the Dunkirk Little Ships Restoration Trust.
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 | : Lilian Harry |
Publisher | : Orion |
Total Pages | : 361 |
Release | : 2010-08-19 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1409130347 |
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Lilian Harry's engrossing wartime saga about the heroes and heroines of Dunkirk. During just nine days in the early summer of 1940, nearly eight hundred 'little ships', from lifeboats and passenger steamers to small private yachts and dinghies, set off across the English Channel to rescue almost half a million men trapped on the beaches of Dunkirk. Among them were three very different craft - a London fireboat from the docklands of the East End, manned by skipper Olly Mears and his crew; a small pleasure steamer from the River Dart in Devon, commanded by twenty-one-year-old Robby Endacott, an Able Seaman in the Royal Navy who grew up on the banks of the Dart; and a small motor yacht owned by Portsmouth solicitor Hubert Stainbank and crewed by his sons, Charles and Toby. As each boat ferries exhausted men from the beaches to the waiting ships, under incessant fire from enemy aircraft and in a sea awash with debris and bodies, the men are unknowingly united by a powerful driving force - the urgent need to find one man, brother or son, who matters more to them than anyone else. Each of these missing men has a family, a wife or a sweetheart at home who is anxiously waiting for news...One sweetheart in particular is determined to play her own part in the rescue.
Author | : Hugh Sebag-Montefiore |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 1005 |
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.