Dunkirk 敦克尔刻
1988-12
Robert Jackson 等
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This is the story of the dark days of 1940, when defeat over-took the British Expeditionary Force in Flanders and the ghost of a great army came home from France. It is the story of a lost campaign, as untried young men armed with little more than rifles took on the might of Hitler's panzer divisions while the Allied armies crumbled on all sides. It is the story of French soldiers too, whose heroism and sacrifice made the deliverance of Dunkirk possible. It was the greatest disaster in British military history: the Second World War was all but lost. Yet from the rout rose that legendary spirit that somehow found triumph in defeat, success in the extraordinary evacuation of so many men from beneath the German guns. Robert Jackson's closely detailed account of three weeks of battle, and the nine days it took an armada of ships to evacuate 198,000 troops, recalls with startling clarity how unprepared were the British for war in 1940.
1 Battle Situation, 20 May 19402 Fateful Decisions, 23-26 May3 Holding Action: Boulogne and Calais, 19-26 May4 Dunkirk: the Last Lifeline5 'Dynamo'6 Fighting Retreat7 The Perimeter8 The Beaches9 The Air Battle10 Last Stand11 The Narrow Seas12 HomecomingEpilogueNotesSelect BibliographyMapsIndex
