Dunkirk
Subtitle: the history behind the major motion picture
By: Joshua Levine
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9780008258931; 9780008227876
Subjects: Dunkirk (Motion picture : 2017); Dunkirk, Battle of, Dunkerque, France, 1940
Description: In 1940, at the French port of Dunkirk, more than 300,000 trapped Allied troops were dramatically rescued from destruction at the hands of Nazi Germany by an extraordinary seaborne evacuation. The true history of the soldiers, sailors, airmen and civilians involved in the nine-day skirmish has passed into legend. Now, the story Winston Churchill described as a 'miracle' is narrated by bestselling author Joshua Levine in its full, sweeping context, including new interviews with veterans and survivors. Told from the viewpoints of land, sea and air, Joshua Levine's Dunkirk is a dramatic account of a defeat that paved the way to ultimate victory and preserved liberty for generations to come.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: "I don't see it as a war film, I see it as a survival story"; an interview between Joshua Levine and director Christopher Nolan; title: Survival; title: Quite like us; title: The long and the short and the tall; title: High hopes; title: Fightin back; title: Halting the Panzers; title: Escape to Dunkirk; title: No sign of a miracle; title: A miracle; title: Where's the bloody RAF?; title: A new Dunkirk.