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Bloomsbury presents Dnkirchen 1940 by Robert Kershaw read by Richard Trinder
Kershaws book is a welcome rebalancing a thoughtful wellresearched and wellwritten contribution to a narrative that has long been too onesided and too mired in national mythology The Times
The British evacuation from the beaches of the small French port town of Dunkirk is one of the iconic moments of military history The battle has captured the popular imagination through LIFE magazine photo spreads the fiction of Ian McEwan and of course Christopher Nolans hugely successful Hollywood blockbuster But what is the German view of this stunning Allied escape Drawing on German interviews diaries and unit postaction reports Robert Kershaw creates a pageturning history of a battle that we thought we knew
Dnkirchen 1940 is the first major history on what went wrong for the Germans at Dunkirk As supreme military commander Hitler had seemingly achieved a miracle after the swift capitulation of Holland and Belgium but with just seven kilometres before the panzers captured Dunkirk the only port through which the trapped British Expeditionary force might escape they came to a shuddering stop Only a detailed interpretation of the German perspective historically lacking to date can provide answers as to why
Dnkirchen 1940 delves into the underevaluated major German miscalculation both strategically and tactically that arguably cost Hitler the war
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