Dunkirk

author: Lieutenant Colonel Ewan Butler
name: Wayne
average rating: 3.86
book published:
rating: 5
read at: 2017/10/30
date added: 2017/10/30
shelves: non-fiction
review:
'Dunkirk' by Lieutenant Colonel Ewan Butler and Major J.S. Bradford is a first hand account that was written 10 years after the battle. It's a very readable account of men caught in a war and being pushed back off the continent.

The British Expeditionary Force (or B.E.F.) was in France in 1939 and into 1940. The book talks about life on the ground with the people of France. There is also mention of the air war and how the British tried to hold off German air power with dwindling supplies and what repairs could be made to keep planes flying. The Navy was off shore, but unable to offer much in aid. This left the army to face the impending advance of Nazi Germany. As the British got pushed out of France at Dunkirk, an amazing rescue of the troops occurred. This was still a rout, no matter how history might portray it.

This book was originally the source for a 1958 movie starring Richard Attenborough. I'm not sure how well that movie has aged, but this book reads very well. The story of men on the ground leading up to the evacuation is well told.

I received a review copy of this ebook from Sapere Books in exchange for an honest review. Thank you for allowing me to review this ebook.


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