Soldier turned historian Julian Thompson offers a full account of the now legendary 1940 Dunkirk campaign - culminating in the fighting BEF retreat hat made the successful evacuation possible. It may be going too far to call Dunkirk ‘a victory’ - but it was a miracle of deliverance

Dunkirk has been seen by post-war historians either a a miraculous deliverance, or an ignominious defeat. Soldier turned military historian Major-General Julian Thompson sets a course between both extremes in tis masterly account of the evacuation. He sets the episode in the context of the whole BEF campaign in France, concentrating as much on the fighting inland as on the desperate scenes on the beaches as the armada of ‘little ships’ plucked hundreds of thousands of stranded soldiers to safety. Thompson argues that it was only a superbly conducted fighting retreat - in which five VC were won - that enabled the majority of the BEF to be lifted from the beaches. This is a fighting soldier’s account of one of the major British battles of the Second World War. It is a gripping and authoritative book.

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Product Code:	12232
Author:	Major-General Julian Thompson
Format:	HB. 338 pp.+Illustrations Published Price £20
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