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| 262 | GELB, Norman. Dunkirk: The Complete Story of the First Step in the Defeat of Hitler. 352p., bibliog., illus., index. New York: Morrow, 1989; London: Joseph, 1990. ISBN: 0718132033. A competent general overview of the evacuation. |
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| 263 | GROSSMITH, F. Dunkirk: A Miracle of Deliverance. 120p., illus. London: Bachman & Turner, 1979. ISBN: 0859740781.
Rev. Grossmith has decided views. He gives a swift telling of the defeats in 1940 and of the role of the National Day of Prayer on 26 May. He also tells of his difficulties in presenting his Christian views. |
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| 264 | GUNBUSTER. Battle Dress. 255p. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1941.
A story of the BEF’s defeat in France and the evacuation from Dunkirk. Man for man we were as good as the Germans, but our allies let us down, says the book. Reprinted by Windrow & Greene in 1994, ISBN: 185915090X. |
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| 265 | GUNBUSTER. Return via Dunkirk. 256p. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1940.
A hugely patriotic account of the defeat of the BEF in novel form. The last few pages give one view of the evacuation. Reprinted by Windrow & Greene in 1994, ISBN: 1859150950. |
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| 266 | HADLEY, Peter. Third Class to Dunkirk: A Worm’s Eye View of the BEF, 1940. 150p., illus. London: Hollis & Carter, 1944.
A day-by-day account of his regiment’s short stay in France in April and May 1940 by a subaltern. He and his men were taken off the beaches in open boats and taken home on the steamer Duchess of Fife. |
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| 267 | HARMAN, Nicholas. Dunkirk: The Necessary Myth. 271p., bibliog., illus., index. London: Hodder & Stoughton; New York: Simon & Schuster, 1980. ISBN: 034024299X.
A journalist takes a fresh and controversial look at what he considers really happened 40 years before. |
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| 268 | HARRIS, John. Dunkirk: The Storms of War. 160p., bibliog., illus. Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1980. ISBN: 0715392026.
A well illustrated day-by-day account covering the week of May 27 to June 1. It aims at a broad view which gives the feel of the period, rather than a detailed history. |
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| 269 | HENNIKER, Mark. An Image of War. x, 266p., bibliog., illus., index. London: Cooper, 1987. ISBN: 0850522811.
An army memoir from a Captain in the Royal Engineers. It has interesting material on the evacuation from the Dunkirk beaches, the securing of the port of Taranto and the sinking of Abdiel. |
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| 270 | HODSON, James Lansdale. Gentlemen of Dunkirk: Being Leaves from a War Correspondent’s Diary. 192p. Manchester: Withy Grove, [1940].
A slight and anecdotal account of the Fall of France. |
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| 271 | INGHAM, H. S. Fire and Water: An Anthology by Members of the National Fire Service. 219p., illus. London: Drummond, 1942.
The story of the London fire service at war, including the Massey Shaw at Dunkirk. |
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| 272 | JACKSON, Robert. Dunkirk: The British Evacuation. 192p. London: Arthur Barker; New York: St. Martin's, 1976. ISBN: 0213165988. A conventional retelling. Republished by Rigel in 2004 (ISBN: 189880009X).
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| 273 | KNOWLES, David J. Escape From Catastrophe: 1940 Dunkirk. 221p., illus., index. Rochester: Knowles Publishing, 2000. ISBN: 0953435822.
An amateur historian attempts to make sense of the period. |
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| 274 | LEVINE, Joshua. Forgotten Voices of Dunkirk. viii, 312p., illus., index. London: Ebury Press in Association with the Imperial War Museum, 2010. ISBN: 978091932206.
Snippets from the Imperial War Museum Sound Archives fill out a familiar tale. |
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| 275 | LORD, Walter. The Miracle of Dunkirk. x, 323p., bibliog, illus., index. New York: Viking, 1982; London: Allen Lane, 1983. ISBN: 0713912111.
Without reaching any original conclusions, Lord has unearthed a great deal of new personal material, which provides a very readable history full of telling anecdotes. Interesting as an American view. |
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| 276 | MASEFIELD, John. The Nine Days Wonder: Operation Dynamo. xvi, 62, vip., illus. London: Heinemann; New York: Macmillan, 1941.
Dunkirk seen by the Poet Laureate. Instant and one-sided history of the nine days from May 26, with some poems included. The full, original, uncensored version was published in 2004 as The Twenty-Five Days, ISBN: 0434452378. |
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| 277 | MILLAR, J. B. The Story of Medway Queen: A Paddle Steamer that Went to War. 44p., illus. East Horsley: Paddle Steamer Preservation Society, [1975]. ISBN: 9780950211817. Requisitioned as a minesweeper, Medway Queen served with great gallantry at Dunkirk. This pamphlet gives her history and tells of the efforts to have her preserved.
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| 278 | NETTLE, S. A. Dunkirk - Old Men Remember. [4], xii, 153p., illus. [n.p.]: Dunkirk Veterans' Association, 1988. ISBN: 0951354604.
Dozens of reminiscences and anecdotes, some naval and all of interest. |
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| 279 | ODDONE, Patrick. Dunkirk 1940: French Ashes, British Deliverance - the Story of Operation Dynamo. 218p., bibliog., illus. Stroud: Tempus, 2000. ISBN: 0752420119.
Unusual in giving a wholly French perspective of the events leading up to the evacuation. Rigorously honest in its interpretation. |
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| 280 | PLUMMER, Russell. The Ships that Saved an Army: A Comprehensive Record of the 1,300 Little Ships of Dunkirk. 240p., bibliog., illus., index. Wellingborough: PSL, 1990. ISBN: 1852602104.
An exhaustive list of the ships and their actions along with some sailors' tales. A good reference book. |
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| 281 | REOCH, Ernest. The St. Valery Story. 227p. Inverness: [author], 1965.
The story of the last stand of the 51st Highland Division in France in 1940. A tragically small number were evacuated. |
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