Dunkirk : the history behind the major motion picture

Levine, Joshua 1970- (author.).

Summary: 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 RYLANCEThe 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.

Record details

ISBN: 9780062740311
ISBN: 0062740318
ISBN: 9780062740304
ISBN: 006274030X
Physical Description: remote
1 online resource.
Publisher: [New York, NY] : William Morrow Paperbacks, 2017.

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Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-354).
Source of Description Note:	Title detail screen (OverDrive, viewed July 5, 2017).