Dunkirk: The British Evacuation, 1940

By Robert Jackson

Book Overview

This is the story of the dark days of 1940, when defeat overtook the British Expeditionary Force in Flanders and the ghost of a great army came home from France. It is the story of a lost campaign, as... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0304359688
• ISBN13: 9780304359684
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: UNKNO
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.8" x 0.8" x 5.3"

Customer Reviews

How to create a victory from defeat.

End of May 1940 and the German Panzer columns have reached the channel. The BEF along with one French Army and the Belgian Army are cut off from the rest of France by an armored corridor. The British and French try to break through and reconnect but cannot. The British finally realize that their small army needed for the protection of England might be in jeopardy and the war lost. The Belgian Army collaspes and Britain pulls back to the Dunkirk enclave where they try to extricate their forces. Jackson writes about the military aspects of this operation from a British perspective. He tells of the gallant withdrawl and the land, sea, and air operations that resulted in the saving of over 200,000 British and French troops. This was certainly a costly operation but it resulted in saving the British Army. This is a nice short book about the Dunkirk operation. This is an entirely British perspective, as only one German pilot had his opinions stated in the book. It also tells of the SS murder of British prisoners. This is as good a book as Walter Lord's book. A nice read.