Alone : Britain, Churchill, and Dunkirk : defeat into victory

Resource Information

The work Alone : Britain, Churchill, and Dunkirk : defeat into victory represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Wadleigh Memorial Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Alone : Britain, Churchill, and Dunkirk : defeat into victory

Title remainder

Britain, Churchill, and Dunkirk : defeat into victory

Statement of responsibility

Michael Korda

Title variation

Britain, Churchill, and Dunkirk, defeat into victory

Creator

• Korda, Michael, 1933-

Author

• Korda, Michael, 1933-

Subject

• Personal Narratives
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- France | Dunkerque
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Great Britain
• Dunkirk, Battle of, Dunkerque, France, 1940
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, English
• Korda, Michael, 1933- -- Childhood and youth

Genre

• Personal narratives, English
• Personal Narratives

Language

eng

Summary

"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, Alone 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. Alone is a work that seamlessly weaves a family memoir into an unforgettable account of a political and military disaster redeemed by the evacuation of more than 300,000 men in four days--surely one of the most heroic episodes of the war. "The incredible, almost miraculous story of what happened at Dunkirk in the year 1940--and why--is unfolded in Alone with great narrative skill and superb delineation of a highly interesting cast of characters, including, importantly, the author himself and his own remarkable family."--David McCullough

Biography type

contains biographical information

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

940.54/21428

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps
• photographs

Index

index present

LC call number

D756.5.D8

LC item number

K67 2017

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography