The Evacuation from Dunkirk - Operation Dynamo, 26 May-4 June 1940
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2002
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PUB TYPE:
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Book Review
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SUBJECT(S):
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Dunkirk, Operation Dynamo, World War II, maritime
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History
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http://www.jmr.nmm.ac.uk
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English
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PUB ID:
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103-392-683
(Last edited on
2003/07/25 10:31:48 GMT-6)
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ABSTRACT:
Myth is a powerful force; those who seek to overcome it are like Don Quixote tilting at windmills, doomed to fail. Those who write on the operations off Dunkirk in 1940 are in a similar predicament. The little ships, the Dunkirk spirit, backs to the wall, all of these are conjured up by that one place name. Dunkirk, which for the greater part of the 17th and 18th centuries had been a thorn in the side of British Sea Officers, became – perhaps still is – a symbol of national resolve. The Evacuation from Dunkirk is part of the Whitehall Histories series designed to bring to a wider audience the official histories and battle summaries prepared by the Admiralty in the immediate post-war period.
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Reviewer: Christopher J Ware
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