Alone : Britain, Churchill, and Dunkirk : defeat into victory /

Alone : Britain, Churchill, and Dunkirk : defeat into victory /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Korda, Michael, 1933- author.
Edition:	First edition.
Imprint:	New York, NY : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, [2017]
Description:	xiv, 525 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Korda, Michael, -- 1933- -- Childhood and youth. Korda, Michael, -- 1933- Dunkirk, Battle of (Dunkerque, France : 1940) World War (1939-1945) Dunkirk, Battle of, Dunkerque, France, 1940. World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- France -- Dunkerque. World War, 1939-1945 -- Great Britain. World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, English. Military campaigns. France -- Dunkerque. Great Britain. Autobiographies. Autobiographies. Personal narratives -- English.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11458081

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Varying Form of Title:	Britain, Churchill, and Dunkirk : defeat into victory Alone
ISBN:	9781631491320 1631491326
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 465-489) and index.
Summary:	"Combining epic history with rich family stories, Michael Korda chronicles the outbreak of World War II and the great events that led to Dunkirk. In an absorbing work peopled with world leaders, generals, and ordinary citizens who fought on both sides of World War II, [this book] brings to resounding life perhaps the most critical year of twentieth-century history. For, indeed, May 1940 was a month like no other, as the German war machine blazed into France while the supposedly impregnable Maginot Line crumbled, and Winston Churchill replaced Neville Chamberlain as prime minister in an astonishing political drama as Britain, isolated and alone, faced a triumphant Nazi Germany. Against this vast historical canvas, Michael Korda relates what happened and why, and also tells his own story, that of a six-year-old boy in a glamorous movie family who would himself be evacuated."--David McCullough.

Table of Contents:

Prologue: "The Past Is a Foreign Country"
Part 1. The Second Great War
1. To the Brink
2. The Failure of Diplomacy
3. "Speak for England!"
4. The Phoney War
5. Operation Pied Piper
6. Case Yellow
7. "Gad, Gentlemen, Here's to Our Greatest Victory of the War"
8. Hitler "Missed the Bus"
9. "In the Name of God, Go"
Part 2. The Battle of France
10. "The Top of the Greasy Pole"
11. Rommel Crosses the Meuse
12. "We Are Beaten; We Have Lost the Battle"
13. "The Mortal Gravity of the Hour"
14. May 20, 1940: "A Pretty Fair Pig of a Day"
15. "The Fatal Slope"
16. "Hard and Heavy Tidings"
17. The Sharp End of the Stick
18. The Battle of Arras: "We May Be foutu"
19. "Their Zest and Delight in Shooting Germans Was Most Entertaining"
Part 3. Dunkirk
20. The Burghers of Calais
21. "Fight It Out to the Bitter End"
22. Flag Officer, Dover
25. The Home Front
24. "Presume Troops Know They Are Cutting Their Way Home to Blighty"
25. Dynamo
26. "Fight It Out, Here or Elsewhere"
27. Holding the Line
28. "The Little Ships"
29. "The Best Mug of Tea I Have Ever Had in My Life"
30. "Arm in Arm"
31. "We Are Going to Beat Them"
32. The Dunkirk Spirit
33. At Sea
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
List of Illustrations
Index