Joshua Levine

Dunkirk

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The epic true story of Dunkirk?now a major motion picture, written and directed by Christopher Nolan, and starring Kenneth Branagh, Tom Hardy, and Mark Rylance The Battle of Dunkirk, in May/June 1940, is remembered as a stunning defeat, yet a major victory as well. The Nazis had beaten back the Allies and pushed them across France to the northern port of Dunkirk. In the ultimate race against time, more than 300,000 Allied soldiers were daringly evacuated across the Channel. This moment of German aggression was used by Winston Churchill as a call to Franklin Roosevelt to enter the war. Now, historian Joshua Levine explores the real lives of those soldiers, bombed and strafed on the beaches for days on end, without food or ammunition; the civilians whose boats were overloaded; the airmen who risked their lives to buy their companions on the ground precious time; and those who did not escape.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Oktober 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 133mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 463g
• ISBN-13: 9780062740304
• ISBN-10: 006274030X
• Artikelnr.: 48096497

Autorenporträt

Joshua Levine has written six bestselling histories including titles in the hugely popular 'Forgotten Voices' series. 'Beauty and Atrocity', his account of the Irish Troubles, was nominated for the Writers' Guild Book of the Year award. 'On a Wing and a Prayer', his history of the pilots of the First World War, has been turned into a major British television documentary. He has written and presented a number of programmes for BBC Radio 4. In a previous life, he was a criminal barrister. He lives in London.

Rezensionen

'Not merely the essential companion to the film but probably the finest work we've seen on the evacuation full stop' Waterstones Weekly