London: Penguin Books, 2006. Hardback in Dust Wrapper.. Very Good — in Very Good Dust Wrapper. . Hardback in dust wrapper (black boards with gilt titling to the spine) Physically 9½” x 6¼” (1.5 kg); (xvii) 701pp; Index; Bibliography; 3rd impression, first published the same year. Includes: List of Dramatis personae; Black & white photographs (plates); Maps; List of abbreviations; List of sources; Photographic lining papers; ISBN: 0-6709-1082-1 || The book is on my shelves and will be carefully packed and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and my beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the bookshop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #195567|| Condition:

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The rescue in May 1940 of British soldiers fleeing capture and defeat by the Nazis at Dunkirk was not just about what happened at sea and on the beaches. The evacuation would never have succeeded had it not been for the tenacity of the British soldiers who stayed behind to ensure they got away. Men like Sergeant Major Gus Jennings who died smothering a German stick bomb in the church at Esquelbecq in an effort to save his comrades, and Captain Marcus Ervine-Andrews VC who single-handedly held back a German attack on the Dunkirk perimeter thereby allowing the British line to form up behind him. Told to stand and fight to the last man, these brave few battalions fought in whatever manner they could to buy precious time for the evacuation. Outnumbered and outgunned, they launched spectacular and heroic attacks time and again, despite ferocious fighting and the knowledge that for many only capture or death would end their struggle.

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Bookseller: BookLovers of Bath (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 195567
Title: Dunkirk: Fight to the Last Man
Author: Hugh Sebag-Montefiore
Format/Binding: Hardback in Dust Wrapper.
Book Condition: Used - Very Good — in Very Good Dust Wrapper.
Quantity Available: 1
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0670910821
ISBN 13: 9780670910823
Publisher: London: Penguin Books
Place of Publication: London
Date Published: 2006
Keywords: british military history, british army, french army, german army, battle dunkirk, war 1939 1945, world war two, world war ii, world war 2, 20th century history, european history, evacuation france, british retreats, british defeats, pas de calais, books b

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