Dunkirk. The History Behind The Major Motion Picture

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: William Collins
Publisher Place: London
Publisher Year: 2017
Edition: First Edition

Description: 356 pages. Book is in Very good condition throughout. The History Behind The Major Motion Picture

Publishers Description: THE EPIC TRUE STORY OF DUNKIRK-NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE, WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY CHRISTOPHER NOLAN, AND STARRING KENNETH BRANAGH, TOM HARDY, AND MARK RYLANCE. The Battle of Dunkirk, in May/June 1940, is remembered as a stunning defeat, yet a major victory as well. The Nazis had beaten back the Allies and pushed them across France to the northern port of Dunkirk. In the ultimate race against time, more than 300,000 Allied soldiers were daringly evacuated across the Channel. This moment of German aggression was used by Winston Churchill as a call to Franklin Roosevelt to enter the war. Now, historian Joshua Levine explores the real lives of those soldiers, bombed and strafed on the beaches for days on end, without food or ammunition; the civilians whose boats were overloaded; the airmen who risked their lives to buy their companions on the ground precious time; and those who did not escape.

ISBN: 9780008258931