Dunkerque, France -- Führer weather -- Landser -- The sea -- 24 May, the day of the halt order -- Panzers against ports -- Running the gauntlet -- Sea, air and land -- The great escape, June 2 -- Elusive victory -- Dünkirchen.
Summary:
The British evacuation from the beaches of the small French port town of Dunkirk is one of the iconic moments of military history. But what is the German view of this stunning Allied escape? Drawing on German interviews, diaries and unit post-action reports, Robert Kershaw creates a page-turning history of a battle that we thought we knew. This book 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 kilometers before the panzers captured Dunkirk -- the only port through which the trapped British Expeditionary force might escape -- they came to a shuddering stop. Hitler had lost control of his stunning advance. Only a detailed interpretation of the German perspective -- historically lacking to date -- can provide answers as to why.
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