Alone: Britain, Churchill, and Dunkirk: Defeat Into Victory
by Korda, Michael
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- Hardcover
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- ISBN 10
- 1631491326
- ISBN 13
- 9781631491320
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About This Item
New York - London: Liveright Publishing Corporation - A Division of W.W. Norton & Company, 2017. First Edition First Printing Stated . Hard Back. Fine/Fine. 6 3/4" x 9 1/2. 523 Pages Indexed. Book and Dust Jacket are in brand new never opened condition. Interior text pages are near flawless. Illustrated with 12 maps; 68 photographs and drawings. Combining epic history with rich family stories, Michael Korda describes the outbreak of World War Two and the great events that led to Dunkirk. An epic of remarkable originality, This book captures the heroism of World War II as movingly as any book in recent memory. Bringing to vivid life the world leaders, generals, and ordinary citizens who fought on both sides of the war, The author chronicles the outbreak of hostilities, recalling as a prescient young boy the enveloping tension that defined pre-Blitz London, and then as a military historian the great events that would alter the course of the twentieth century. For indeed, May 1940 was a month like no other. The superior German war machine blazed into France, as the Maginot Line, supposedly as firmly fixed in place as the Pyramids, crumbled in days. With the fall of Holland and Belgium, the imminent fall of Paris, the British Army stranded at Dunkirk, and Neville Chamberlain's government in political freefall, Winston Churchill became prime minister on this historical nadir of May 10, 1941. Britain, diplomatically isolated, was suddenly the only nation with the courage and the resolve to defy Hitler. Against this vast historical canvas, Korda relates what happened and why. We first meet him at the age of six, surrounded by his glamorous movie family: his stage actress mother; his elegant father, Vincent, soon to receive an Academy Award; and his devoted Nanny Low, with whom he cites his evening prayers. Even the cheery BBC bulletins that Michael listened to every night could not mask the impending catastrophe, the German invasion so certain that the young boy, carrying his passport on a string around his neck, was evacuated to Canada on an ocean liner full of children. Such alarm was hardly exaggerated. No one, after all, could have ever imagined that the most unlikely flotilla of destroyers, Dutch barges, fishing boats, yachts, and even rowboats would rescue over 300,000 men off the beach at Dunkirk and home to England. The miraculous return of the army was greeted with a renewed call for courage, and in the months that followed, the lives of tens of millions would be inexorably transformed, often tragically so, by these epochal weeks of May 1940. It is this pivotal turning point in world history that Korda captures with such immediacy in Alone, a work that triumphantly demonstrates that even the most calamitous defeats can become the most legendary victories. Contents in Three Parts: The Second Great War, The Battle of France, and Dunkirk.
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- Bookseller
- Dons Book Store (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 19475
- Title
- Alone: Britain, Churchill, and Dunkirk: Defeat Into Victory
- Author
- Korda, Michael
- Format/Binding
- Hard Back
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition First Printing Stated
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 1631491326
- ISBN 13
- 9781631491320
- Publisher
- Liveright Publishing Corporation - A Division of W.W. Norton & Company
- Place of Publication
- New York - London
- Date Published
- 2017
- Size
- 6 3/4" x 9 1/2
- Keywords
- WORLD WAR 1939-1945 DUNKIRK BATTLE FRANCE 1940 CAMPAIGNS GREAT BRITAIN NARRATIVES
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