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Serves as a great and convincing riposte to the banner-waving tale that is normally told. --Catholic Herald
A meticulously-researched, very well written and deeply moving account of the experiences of the forty thousand British soldiers who fell into German hands during the Dunkirk campaign. --Andrew Roberts
In Sean Longden [the POWs] have found a sensitive and capable chronicler, and his sensitive book cannot fail to elicit sympathy for their suffering and admiration for their sacrifice. --Dominic Sandbrook, Evening Standard
A meticulously-researched, very well written and deeply moving account of the experiences of the forty thousand British soldiers who fell into German hands during the Dunkirk campaign. --Andrew Roberts
In Sean Longden [the POWs] have found a sensitive and capable chronicler, and his sensitive book cannot fail to elicit sympathy for their suffering and admiration for their sacrifice. --Dominic Sandbrook, Evening Standard
The Soldier, July 2008.
"gritty emotional and shocking ... It has changed my understanding of life for British POWs in the Second World War."
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75 of 77 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
My mum bought me this for my birthday. I read it in two long days! My Grandfather was captured at Calais (one of The Rifle Brigade). He wouldn't talk too much about it, only opening up a little towards the end of his life. He would talk for a while, then change the subject. He was very bitter about not being rescued like those at Dunkirk. I used to say to him, 'Had you been rescued, you might not have been here today, as you could have died elsewhere'. He felt let down by the government and therefore had no desire to try and escape. Until I read this book, I had little understanding of what he and others went through. I was not aware of the continued fighting and other rescues after Dunkirk, despite having read a lot about the War. Perhaps it was a shame it wasn't written earlier. I might have asked my Grandfather more before it was too late.
25 of 26 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
A grim and often horrific account of the men of the British Expeditionary Force that were left behind in France after the Dunkirk evacuation. The author describes the experiences of these men using a wide array of sources, including eye-witness accounts that pull no punches.
A very readable and fascinating book, although perhaps the editing could have been a little tighter, as the author sometimes repeats himself, and there are a fair number of errors in the text, though these are purely cosmetic.
Highly recommended.
A very readable and fascinating book, although perhaps the editing could have been a little tighter, as the author sometimes repeats himself, and there are a fair number of errors in the text, though these are purely cosmetic.
Highly recommended.
52 of 55 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This book aims to tell the normally forgotten story of those left behind. It's a story that should be told: there are many reasons that it generally hasn't been. One is the difficulty in finding people prepared to talk about it. I didn't know my own father and his cousin had been amongst those left behind to fight (which they did - ferociously, as is shown by the casualty figures on both sides) until an acquaintance mentioned it when I was a teenager. He didn't talk about it even once I did know. This was common.
This book is therefore unavoidably based on evidence from only a small proportion of those involved. That can't be helped, but it presents their experience as everyone's experience. To take an early example, it reads as though all prisoners were sent back through Trier. Many were - my father probably was - but there were also other routes, with people marched from Arras and the coast up through the Netherlands to towards the mouth of the Rhine to be transported by Rhine barge. Looking at the German records shows how many transit camps (Dulags) there were all along the Rhine and there were other routes to them between the extremes of the Rhine mouth and Trier.
There are further examples, and as other reviewers have said, there are also errors of simple fact and typesetting.
So in short: I'm glad the book was written; I recommend reading it; but don't take it as the universal story of all those left behind, and watch out for mistakes.
This book is therefore unavoidably based on evidence from only a small proportion of those involved. That can't be helped, but it presents their experience as everyone's experience. To take an early example, it reads as though all prisoners were sent back through Trier. Many were - my father probably was - but there were also other routes, with people marched from Arras and the coast up through the Netherlands to towards the mouth of the Rhine to be transported by Rhine barge. Looking at the German records shows how many transit camps (Dulags) there were all along the Rhine and there were other routes to them between the extremes of the Rhine mouth and Trier.
There are further examples, and as other reviewers have said, there are also errors of simple fact and typesetting.
So in short: I'm glad the book was written; I recommend reading it; but don't take it as the universal story of all those left behind, and watch out for mistakes.
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Since a child, I've been intrigued by WWII and the individual, untold stories. I've read widely on the subject and have as complete a WWII DVD collection as you could have. Read more
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Genuinely new information (for me, anyway!)
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