Dunkirk Evacuation
Briefing
With the British Expeditionary Force and French First Army encircled against the Channel coast, Operation Dynamo evacuated over 338,000 Allied soldiers between 26 May and 4 June 1940 — carried by destroyers and a famous fleet of around 850 civilian little ships. Nearly all heavy equipment was abandoned on the beaches, but the rescued men formed the nucleus of every British army that fought for the rest of the war.
Books Covering This Event (9)
Popular History
A monumental history of Nazi Germany from its origins through its destruction, written by a journalist who.
The full story of Operation Dynamo, from the encirclement to the last little ship home.
A single-volume history of the entire war by the most influential military historian of the 20th century.
A global history of the war focused on the experience of ordinary people — soldiers and civilians — caught in.
Historical Fiction
An American naval officer and his family are swept up in the opening years of the war, from Hitler's invasion.
A child's lie destroys two lives; the retreat to Dunkirk gives the lie its terrible setting.
Two French sisters resist the German occupation in their own ways — one by hiding a child, one by guiding airmen over the Pyrenees.
Memoir
Shirer's actual diary as CBS correspondent in Berlin, from the Anschluss to the fall of France — published while the war still hung in the balance.
Churchill's six-volume memoir-history of the entire war, from the gathering storm to triumph and tragedy.