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Dunkirk Operation Dynamo : 26th May - 4th June 1940 an Epic of Gallantry.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Burnell-Nugent, James.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dunkirk, Battle of, Dunkerque, France, 1940.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (422 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Dunkirk Operation Dynamo
- Place of Publication:
- Dartmouth : Britannia Museum Trust Press, 2020.
- Summary:
- Full and detailed Royal Navy account of the evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force from Belgium and northern France through the port of Dunkirk and across adjacent beaches is rightly regarded as one of the most significant episodes in Englands long history.
- Contents:
- Britannia Royal Naval College
- Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsay, KCB, KBE, MVO
- Foreword
- Admiral Sir James Burnell-Nugent
- Introduction
- Michael Pearce
- Introduction Bibliography
- Illustrations
- Battle Summary Introduction
- Something must now be said of the Army Movements
- Preliminary Events 10th-18th MAY 1940
- 10th May - Germany Invades Holland and Belgium
- 11th May - Allies reach River Dyle
- 12th May - German Thrust on French 9th Army Front
- 14th May - Germans cross Meuse
- 15th May - Dutch Army Surrenders
- 16th May - Allies Withdraw to River Escaut
- French 9th Army Front Broken
- 18th May - Allied Rail Communications Severed
- The week before Operation “Dynamo,” 19th-25th May, 1940
- 19th May - Compulsory Withdrawal of B.E.F. Foreseen
- R.A.F. Component Begins Return to England
- Vice-Admiral, Dover, Represented at War Office Conference
- Channel Ports the German objective
- General Weygand Directing Allied Operations
- R.A.F. Component to Set Up Rear H.Q. at Hawkinge
- Naval Staff at Dover Considers Large-scale Evacuation
- Provision of Small Craft Considered
- 21st May - Counter-attack South of Arras
- Germans Approach Boulogne Generated by AI.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Part of the metadata in this record was created by AI, based on the text of the resource.
- ISBN:
- 9781838010720
- 1838010726
- OCLC:
- 1324336039
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