Dunkirk Little Ships

Author : Louise Borden
Publisher : Pavilion Books, Limited
ISBN 13 : 9781857939330
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Little Ships written by Louise Borden and published by Pavilion Books, Limited. This book was released on 1997 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Told through the eyes of a fisherman's daughter, this is the story of how, in May 1940, an 'armada' of ordinary people in their own boats joined the Royal Navy to help rescue soldiers from the beaches of Dunkirk

Author : Philip Weir
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1784423734
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dunkirk and the Little Ships written by Philip Weir and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-10-29 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During 1940 the German army swept with devastating speed across the Low Countries and into northern France and drove Allied forces back into a small pocket around Dunkirk. Without a swift withdrawal across the English Channel, the latter faced certain death or capture. The evacuation plan – Operation Dynamo – initially calculated that 45,000 men might be rescued, but between 26 May and 4 June 338,226 men were in fact brought back to England. Naval historian Philip Weir shows how this was made possible by a vast armada of disparate vessels including destroyers, minesweepers, fishing vessels and, most famously of all, the privately owned 'Little Ships'. He explores the vessels' various roles within the evacuation, and their subsequent fates, including preservation and participation in commemorative return runs to the port, which now take place every five years.

Author : Nigel Sharp
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445647516
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dunkirk Little Ships written by Nigel Sharp and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2015-05-15 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of how 700 small privately–owned vessels helped to save 338,226 British and French soldiers from the beaches of Dunkirk in 1940.

Author : Philip Weir
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1784423769
Total Pages : 113 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dunkirk and the Little Ships written by Philip Weir and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-10-29 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During 1940 the German army swept with devastating speed across the Low Countries and into northern France and drove Allied forces back into a small pocket around Dunkirk. Without a swift withdrawal across the English Channel, the latter faced certain death or capture. The evacuation plan – Operation Dynamo – initially calculated that 45,000 men might be rescued, but between 26 May and 4 June 338,226 men were in fact brought back to England. Naval historian Philip Weir shows how this was made possible by a vast armada of disparate vessels including destroyers, minesweepers, fishing vessels and, most famously of all, the privately owned 'Little Ships'. He explores the vessels' various roles within the evacuation, and their subsequent fates, including preservation and participation in commemorative return runs to the port, which now take place every five years.

Author : Louise Borden
Publisher : White Lion Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781847800817
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Little Ships written by Louise Borden and published by White Lion Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dramatic story of the historic rescue of over 300,000 men from the beach of Dunkirk.

Author : Christian Brann
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780946604029
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Little Ships of Dunkirk written by Christian Brann and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Russell Plummer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ships that Saved an Army written by Russell Plummer and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Walter Lord
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1453238506
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Miracle of Dunkirk written by Walter Lord and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2012-03-06 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true story of the World War II evacuation portrayed in the Christopher Nolan film Dunkirk, by the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Day of Infamy. In May 1940, the remnants of the French and British armies, broken by Hitler’s blitzkrieg, retreated to Dunkirk. Hemmed in by overwhelming Nazi strength, the 338,000 men gathered on the beach were all that stood between Hitler and Western Europe. Crush them, and the path to Paris and London was clear. Unable to retreat any farther, the Allied soldiers set up defense positions and prayed for deliverance. Prime Minister Winston Churchill ordered an evacuation on May 26, expecting to save no more than a handful of his men. But Britain would not let its soldiers down. Hundreds of fishing boats, pleasure yachts, and commercial vessels streamed into the Channel to back up the Royal Navy, and in a week nearly the entire army was ferried safely back to England. Based on interviews with hundreds of survivors and told by “a master narrator,” The Miracle of Dunkirk is a striking history of a week when the outcome of World War II hung in the balance (Arthur Schlesinger Jr.).

Author : John Grehan
Publisher : Frontline Books
ISBN 13 : 1526770369
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dunkirk Evacuation, Operation Dynamo written by John Grehan and published by Frontline Books. This book was released on 2020-04-30 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Takes you right to the scene of the action in late May and early June 1940, when more than 300,000 soldiers were saved from capture or death.” —Rambles The “miracle” of Dunkirk is one of the most inspiring stories of all time. The British Expeditionary Force had been all but surrounded, and, with the French armies collapsing on all sides, it appeared that Britain was about to suffer the heaviest defeat in its history. When Winston Churchill’s War Cabinet finally accepted that the Battle of France had been lost, preparations were made to try and rescue as many soldiers as possible from one of the few ports left open to the British Expeditionary Force—Dunkirk. So rushed and chaotic was the retreat to the Channel coast, with thousands of guns, vehicles and tanks being abandoned, there was little time for soldiers to consider taking photographs of the shocking scenes of death and destruction which surrounded them. Yet images do exist of the ships and boats of all descriptions which braved the bombs and guns of the German Air Force to rescue Britain’s only field army from the clutches of Hitler’s panzer divisions. One man in particular, Sub-Lieutenant John Rutherford Crosby, a member of the crew of the minesweeper, and converted Clyde paddle steamer, HMS Oriole, left a legacy of dramatic images. These include the never-to-be-forgotten scenes of long lines of tired and anxious troops stretching into the sea and of bombs exploding on the packed beaches—all with his own personal little camera. Other images in this book paint a vivid and memorable picture, as no words ever could, of the greatest evacuation of troops under fire.

Author : Louise Borden
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Little Ships written by Louise Borden and published by . This book was released on 1997-04 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young English girl and her father take their sturdy fishing boat and join the scores of other civilian vessels crossing the English Channel in a daring attempt to rescue Allied and British troops trapped by Nazi soldiers at Dunkirk.