TY  - BOOK
AU  - Korda,Michael
TI  - Alone: Britain, Churchill, and Dunkirk : defeat into victory 
SN  - 9781631491320
AV  - D756.5.D8 K67 2017
U1  - 940.54/21428 23
PY  - 2017///]
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company
KW  - Korda, Michael,
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
KW  - Campaigns
KW  - France
KW  - Dunkerque
KW  - Dunkirk, Battle of, Dunkerque, France, 1940
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Personal narratives, English
KW  - Autobiographies
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 465-489) and index
N2  - "Combining epic history with rich family stories, Michael Korda chronicles the outbreak of World War II and the great events that led to Dunkirk.  In an absorbing work peopled with world leaders, generals, and ordinary citizens who fought on both sides of World War II, [this book] brings to resounding life perhaps the most critical year of twentieth-century history.  For, indeed, May 1940 was a month like no other, as the German war machine blazed into France while the supposedly impregnable Maginot Line crumbled, and Winston Churchill replaced Neville Chamberlain as prime minister in an astonishing political drama as Britain, isolated and alone, faced a triumphant Nazi Germany.  Against this vast historical canvas, Michael Korda relates what happened and why, and also tells his own story, that of a six-year-old boy in a glamorous movie family who would himself be evacuated."--David McCullough
ER  -