Dunkirk
by Sebag-Montefiore, HughFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2006-11-11
Publisher(s): Harvard Univ Pr
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Summary
"Using new material from British, French, Belgian, German, Russian and Czechoslovakian archives, and interviews with the last surviving witnesses of the Dunkirk campaign, Hugh Sebag-Montefiore can at last tell the true story of how the British Army was evacuated from Dunkirk and from France in 1940."--BOOK JACKET.
Table of Contents
| List of Illustrations | vii | ||||
| List of Maps | x | ||||
| Introduction | xi | ||||
| Note to Readers | xviii | ||||
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38 | (8) | |||
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46 | (13) | |||
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80 | (16) | |||
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96 | (13) | |||
| 10 Battle of the Bulge | 109 | (16) | |||
| 11 Lambs to the Slaughter | 125 | (17) | |||
| 12 The Arras Counter-Attack | 142 | (14) | |||
| 13 We Stand and Fight | 156 | (17) | |||
| 14 Escape from Arras | 173 | (15) | |||
| 15 Boulogne and the Useless Mouths | 188 | (12) | |||
| 16 Evacuation of Boulogne | 200 | (12) | |||
| 17 Calais and the French Complaint | 212 | (13) | |||
| 18 Calais — Fight to the Finish | 225 | (15) | |||
| 19 Lucky Breaks | 240 | (15) | |||
| 20 Siege at Cassel | 255 | (24) | |||
| 21 Surrounded at Le Paradis | 279 | (14) | |||
| 22 Massacre at Le Paradis | 293 | (10) | |||
| 23 Manhunt. | 303 | (19) | |||
| 24 Crisis in the North | 322 | (13) | |||
| 25 Up the Glosters | 335 | (10) | |||
| 26 Massacre at Wormhout | 345 | (17) | |||
| 27 Escape to Dunkirk | 362 | (13) | |||
| 28 The Dunkirk Armada | 375 | (9) | |||
| 29 Beached | 384 | (11) | |||
| 3o Entente Cordiale | 395 | (17) | |||
| 31 Evacuation | 412 | (11) | |||
| 32 Rearguard | 423 | (17) | |||
| 33 Mission Accomplished | 440 | (8) | |||
| 34 Payback | 448 | (10) | |||
| 35 Sacrifice of the 51st Highland Division | 458 | (23) | |||
| 36 The Sinking of the Lancastria | 481 | (16) | |||
| Epilogue | 497 | (10) | |||
| Maps | 507 | (32) | |||
| Appendices | 539 | (4) | |||
| Dramatis Personae | 543 | (4) | |||
| Abbreviations | 547 | (2) | |||
| Notes | 549 | (96) | |||
| Bibliography and Sources | 645 | (16) | |||
| Acknowledgements | 661 | (6) | |||
| Index | 667 |
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