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Dunkirk - Fight to the Last Man
by Hugh Sebag-Montefiore
What a terrific true story...... 'The evacuation of British troops from Dunkirk in 1940 is one of the best known episodes in world history. Yet the rescue was not just about what happened on the beaches and at sea. This new book makes it clear that the evacuation would never have succeeded had it not been for the tenacity of the British soldiers who remained behind to fight on while the rest of the Army retreated. The crucial battles took place outside Dunkirk. On 24 May 1940 the German panzer divisions which had bludgeoned their way through France halted at the canal line south of Dunkirk. However on 27 May they advanced again, intending to encircle and capture half a million allied soldiers, many of them British. They would have succeeded had it not been for the British battalions ordered to stand in their path. Their job was to shield the corridor down which the rest of the Army was retreating to Dunkirk by holding a series of strong points (key towns and villages), and they were not to give way until they had fired their last bullet. They were to fight to the last man. Hardly any of those brave men made it back to the beaches or the Dunkirk 'mole'. Most were either killed or captured at their posts. They are the forgotten heroes of Dunkirk, and it is their valiant exploits which form the core of this book.'
by Hugh Sebag-Montefiore
What a terrific true story...... 'The evacuation of British troops from Dunkirk in 1940 is one of the best known episodes in world history. Yet the rescue was not just about what happened on the beaches and at sea. This new book makes it clear that the evacuation would never have succeeded had it not been for the tenacity of the British soldiers who remained behind to fight on while the rest of the Army retreated. The crucial battles took place outside Dunkirk. On 24 May 1940 the German panzer divisions which had bludgeoned their way through France halted at the canal line south of Dunkirk. However on 27 May they advanced again, intending to encircle and capture half a million allied soldiers, many of them British. They would have succeeded had it not been for the British battalions ordered to stand in their path. Their job was to shield the corridor down which the rest of the Army was retreating to Dunkirk by holding a series of strong points (key towns and villages), and they were not to give way until they had fired their last bullet. They were to fight to the last man. Hardly any of those brave men made it back to the beaches or the Dunkirk 'mole'. Most were either killed or captured at their posts. They are the forgotten heroes of Dunkirk, and it is their valiant exploits which form the core of this book.'
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I will be reading that book too. 
