Alone: Britain, Churchill, and Dunkirk: Defeat into Victory - Brossura

Korda, Michael

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ISBN 10: 1631494910 ISBN 13: 9781631494918

Casa editrice: Liveright Pub Corp, 2018

Riassunto

No one can evince the drama of what actually happened at Dunkirk in the year 1940 with as “great narrative skill and superb delineation” (David McCullough) as Michael Korda, the historian and legendary book editor. As dramatized in Christopher Nolan’s film Dunkirk, May 1940 was a month like no other: Germany’s war machine blazed into France, the impregnable Maginot Line crumbled, and Winston Churchill replaced Neville Chamberlain as prime minister as Britain, isolated and alone, faced a triumphant Nazi Germany. Against this vast canvas, best-selling author Michael Korda relates his own personal story, “by turns charming, powerful and poignant” (Minneapolis Star Tribune): that of a six-year-old boy from a glamorous movie family who would himself be evacuated. Weaving together “eyewitness detail and a fine sense of drama” (Boston Globe) to form an epic of remarkable originality, Alone movingly captures a moment of historic triumph—when an unlikely flotilla of destroyers brought 300,000 men home to safety.

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Recensione:

"Anyone wanting to explore the history behind Christopher Nolan's recent film could do a lot worse than start here."

--Times Literary Supplement

"[Alone] vividly brings to life events which saw Britain stand alone as the only nation with the resolve and courage to defy Hitler."

--iN10 Magazine, The Sunday Post

"Ultimately, this is a title which offers an absorbing and well-written tale of political intrigue and military campaign...set within, is the fascinating tale of a family, as well as armies, rescued from the brink of disaster."

--Britain at War Magazine

"A very compelling account of how calamitous defeat somehow became a celebrated victory."

--Soldier Magazine

"The story of the coming of World War Two, the fall of France, and the 'miracle' at Dunkirk has been told many times before, but Michael Korda injects this familiar tale with fresh poignancy and compelling drama as only the finest historians can do...[His] memories as a young boy, watching his famous film family deal with the onset of war, give his elegant narrative an added dimension that makes it compulsively readable." --Max Boot

L'autore:

Michael Korda is the best-selling author of Hero, Clouds of Glory, and Charmed Lives. The former editor-in-chief of Simon and Schuster, he was awarded the Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary for his participation in the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, and makes his home in Dutchess County, New York.

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• Editore: Liveright Pub Corp
• Data di pubblicazione: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1631494910
• ISBN 13: 9781631494918
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 525