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Alone: Britain, Churchill, and Dunkirk: Defeat into Victory
Alone Britain Churchill and Dunkirk Defeat into Victory Author:Michael Korda An "entertaining" and "fine introduction (New York Time Book Review) to one of the most stunning military rescue missions in modern history, Michael Korda's Alone evinces the drama of May 1940, a month like no other: Germany's war machine blazed into France, the impregnable Maginot Line crumbled, and Winston Churc... more »hill replaced Neville Chamberlain as prime minister, as Britain, isolated and alone, faced a triumphant Nazi Germany. "By turns charming, powerful and poignant" (Minneapolis Star Tribune), Korda's perspective as a six-year-old from a glamorous movie family, who would himself be evacuated, is woven movingly throughout. Culminating in a moment of historic triumph -- when a flotilla of unlikely destroyers brought 300,000 men home to safety.
Alone is an epic of remarkable originality, demonstrating that even the most calamitous defeats can become the most legendary victories.« less