Alone: Britain, Churchill, and Dunkirk: Defeat into Victory
by Korda, Michael
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- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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- ISBN 10
- 1631491326
- ISBN 13
- 9781631491320
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About This Item
New York and London: Liveright Publishing Corporation; W. W. Norton & Company, 2017. xiv, 525 pages, illustrations, maps; 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. Bumped corners. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. "Combining epic history with rich family stories, Michael Korda chronicles the outbreak of World War II and the great events that led to Dunkirk. In an absorbing work peopled with world leaders, generals, and ordinary citizens who fought on both sides of World War II, Alone brings to resounding life perhaps the most critical year of twentieth-century history. For, indeed, May 1940 was a month like no other, as the German war machine blazed into France while the supposedly impregnable Maginot Line crumbled, and Winston Churchill replaced Neville Chamberlain as prime minister in an astonishing political drama as Britain, isolated and alone, faced a triumphant Nazi Germany. Against this vast historical canvas, Michael Korda relates what happened and why, and also tells his own story, that of a six-year-old boy in a glamorous movie family who would himself be evacuated. Alone is a work that seamlessly weaves a family memoir into an unforgettable account of a political and military disaster redeemed by the evacuation of more than 300,000 men in four days--surely one of the most heroic episodes of the war." - Publisher.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. 8vo.
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- Title
- Alone: Britain, Churchill, and Dunkirk: Defeat into Victory
- Author
- Korda, Michael
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 1631491326
- ISBN 13
- 9781631491320
- Publisher
- Liveright Publishing Corporation; W. W. Norton & Company
- Place of Publication
- New York and London
- Date Published
- 2017
- Size
- 8vo
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