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Harman, Nicholas : Dunkirk: The Patriotic Myth

Simon and Schuster, New York, 1980

ISBN 0671253891

271pp. B&W Illustrations Remainder mark rubber stamped, DJ price clipped with creased flap Shows that the battle of Dunkirk was a major defeat, embellished and made glorious by the British propaganda machine, 8vo, Very Good in Very Good DJ

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Harman, Nicholas : Dunkirk : The Patriotic Myth

Simon and Schuster, New York, 1980

ISBN 0671253891

FIRST PRINTING of the First Edition. A realistic, factual history of the Allied military disaster at Dunkirk during the Nazi German western offensive in 1940, the British Expeditionary Force and their French allies losing all their vehicles and heavy equipment as well as many thousands of men as prisoners, with much information on the German strategic and tactical moves and the blunders committed by the Allies, as well as the decision process by both Adolf Hitler and Winston Churchill. Author offers a cogent analysis of the quite successful post-disaster British propaganda initiative that portrayed the event as a sort of victory - and which is still widely believed today. Did Hitler deliberately allow most of the BEF to escape to Britain? Author closely examines this all-important oft-asked question. Hardcover with dust jacket, maps, illustrated, appendices, notes-sources, indexed. A very nice copy, the jacket neatly encased in an acid-free archival protector. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book. Book Condition: Near Fine. Binding: Hardcover. Jacket: Near Fine

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