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Dunkirk : fight to the last man

documentary heritage
  • Description

    "Using new material from British, French, Belgian, German, Russian and Czechoslovakian archives, and interviews with the last surviving witnesses of the Dunkirk campaign, Hugh Sebag-Montefiore can at last tell the true story of how the British Army was evacuated from Dunkirk and from France in 1940"--Dust jacket.

  • Place
  • Other Id

    D756.5.D8 SEB (Library of Congress Call Number)

    88907 (Cat ID)

    88749 (Presto content ID)

  • Department

Images and documents

Catalogue

  • Object Type
  • Name/Title
    Dunkirk : fight to the last man
  • Primary Maker
  • Contributor/Publisher
    Viking, an imprint of Penguin Books
  • Place
  • Date
    2006
  • Physical Description

    xvii, 701 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm

  • ISBN/ISSN
    9780670910823
    0670910821
  • Level of Current Record
    Bib record
  • Member Object

    1 item in this collection. View all items.

  • Subject Category
  • Content
    1. Moment of truth -- 2. The BEF arrives in France -- 3. The Mechelen affair -- 4. The final warning -- 5. The matador's cloak -- 6. Charging bull -- 7. Into battle -- 8. Over the River Meuse -- 9. Flight -- 10. Battle of the Bulge -- 11. Lambs to the slaughter -- 12. The Arras counter-attack -- 13. We stand and fight -- 14. Escape from Arras -- 15. Boulogne and the useless mouths -- 16. Evacuation of Boulogne -- 17. Calais and the French complaint -- 18. Calais -- fight to the finish -- 19. Lucky breaks -- 20. Siege at Cassel -- 21. Surrounded at Le Paradis -- 22. Massacre at Le Paradis -- 23. Manhunt -- 24. Crisis in the north -- 25. Up the Glosters -- 26. Massacre at Wormhout -- 27. Escape to Dunkirk -- 28. The Dunkirk Armada -- 29. Beached -- 30. Entente cordiale -- 31. Evacuation -- 32. Rearguard -- 33. Mission accomplished -- 34. Payback -- 35. Sacrifice of the 51st highland division -- 36. The sinking of the Lancastria.
  • Public Access Text

    [Keywords: World War Two; Second Word War]

    Includes bibliographical references (pages 645-660) and index.

  • Collection Type
    Reading Room
  • Copyright
    All rights reserved
  • Last Update
    19 Dec 2023
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