Alone: Britain, Churchill, and Dunkirk: Defeat Into Victory (Paperback)

from hardlyhardy

Evacuation is as neutral a term as one might find to describe what happened at Dunkirk in May and June of 1940, and Michael Korda uses it frequently in “Alone: Britain, Churchill and Dunkirk: Defeat into Victory” (2017). Yet as the subtitle indicates, other terms can be used as well. At one point...

from DeaconBernie

This work is far more than I expected it to be. I thought I was getting a rehashing of Dunkirt, this book is a "You-are-there" presentation of many simultaneous stories interwoven. First, there is the story of the Korda family for a portion of 1940. Then there is the story of how the British gove...

from hardlyhardy

Evacuation is as neutral a term as one might find to describe what happened at Dunkirk in May and June of 1940, and Michael Korda uses it frequently in “Alone: Britain, Churchill and Dunkirk: Defeat into Victory” (2017). Yet as the subtitle indicates, other terms can be used as well. At one point...

from DeaconBernie

This work is far more than I expected it to be. I thought I was getting a rehashing of Dunkirt, this book is a "You-are-there" presentation of many simultaneous stories interwoven. First, there is the story of the Korda family for a portion of 1940. Then there is the story of how the British gove...