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Dunkirk: Fight to the Last Man (Paperback)

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Paperback: 720 pages
Publisher: Penguin (31 May 2007)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0141024372
ISBN-13: 978-0141024370
Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 13 x 4.8 cm

Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (12 customer reviews)

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‘A searing story . . . both meticulous military history and a deeply moving testimony to the extraordinary personal bravery of individual soldiers’ --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

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‘Sebag-Montefiore tells [the story] with gusto, a remarkable attention to detail and an inexhaustible appetite for tracking down the evidence’ --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

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4.0 out of 5 stars A strong account of individual bravery, 8 Aug 2006

By	RogerTheCat (UK) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Dunkirk: Fight to the Last Man (Hardcover)

I inherited an interest in WW2 from my history teacher father and have read many factual accounts from both the Allied and German perspective over the years. This book stands up well against the more recognised military historians like Holmes, Keegan or Beevor.

After the introducions and background are completed this volume concentrates quite rightly on the tales of each beleagured BEF battalion as they fought a desperate rearguard action back to the French and Belgian coast. Tales of individual heroism and leadership are intermingled with corroborative texts from both British and German archives and extracts that give the bigger picture as events unfolded.

The Dunkirk evacuation ended a huge defeat for the British Army and this book does not seek to hide or diminish that fact. However what it does do is demonstrate the resolute attitude of the Officers and Soldiers on the ground that took huge casualties and made great personal sacrifiuces in order to help ensure that as many men as possible could be extracted to fight another day.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Detailed But Limited, 8 Aug 2007

By	Jon Latimer (Wales) - See all my reviews

The `miracle' of Dunkirk, as Churchill styled our most famous military disaster, is one surrounded by myths. This book sets out to dispel some of them, but for readers unfamiliar with the story of the fall of France in 1940, it might not be the best place to start, as it does not convey the broad picture very clearly. An entertaining opening of British soldiers visiting French brothels, like children let loose in a sweet shop, is followed later by a detailed account of the `Mechelen incident', when German plans were captured in January 1940. But the implications are less well dealt with, and Colonel-General Gerd von Rundstedt, whose forces performed the decisive German attack through the Ardennes called 'sichelschnitt', or sickle-cut, does not make an appearance until chapter 11.

The use of first-hand accounts conveys the confusion and desperation of the fighting, and the narrative is sometimes intensely personal. There are French and German voices early on, but thereafter it relies on British ones as the book concentrates on the efforts of the soldiers holding the defensive ring while the `little boats' and the Royal Navy set about the work of evacuation. In this it succeeds in creating a vivid impression of what it was like for those desperate men. The book's best sections are those dealing with set pieces, such as the defence of the village of Cassel, the massacres of British prisoners by SS men at Le Paradis and Wormhout, but this is at the expense of the evacuation itself which is covered in much less detail. The book finishes describing the capture of two-thirds of 51st (Highland) Division at St Valery-en-Caux, and the tragic sinking of the Lancastria with over 3,500 lives lost, but it skates quickly over the further evacuations that brought 144,000 British servicemen back from France from points south of the River Somme.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Dunkirk-detailed debate., 31 Jul 2006

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To date,the most comprehensive review of the subject from British,French and German sources.Whilst containing sufficient detail at a military unit level for most students the overall handling of the time-line requires some care in following.The notes,bibliography and maps are excellentand accurate.A minor quibble is that where sources differ as to their detail Sebag-Montefiore does not follow up.Nevertheless the best on the history so far.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Detail Overload
Undoutedly thoroughly researched but ultimately a dissapointing read. The text gets bogged down in minutiae at the expense of the bigger picture making it difficult to retain the... Read more

Published 12 months ago by P. S. Cumberland

5.0 out of 5 stars Very informative
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Published 18 months ago by C. Hollingshead

5.0 out of 5 stars Fascinating and enthralling account
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This book provided an invaluable insight as to why Dunkirk happened and the sacrifices that were made by the rearguard troops, something that is not often high lighted these days... Read more

Published on 1 Oct 2007 by Paul

4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent personal accounts but a bit unbalanced
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Published on 6 Aug 2007 by MikeyG

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Published on 5 Aug 2007 by J. Creighton

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Published on 7 Jul 2007 by R. Parry

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