Return Via Dunkirk
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Edition: later repr.,
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: CUSTOM DJ. Page Condition: yellowed with signs of ageing. Markings: No markings. Usual shelf-wear.
Return via Dunkirk stands as one of the most gripping eyewitness accounts of the miraculous evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force from the beaches of northern France in May–June 1940. Written under the pseudonym Gun Buster — the collective pen name of two British artillery officers who lived through the ordeal — the narrative chronicles the harrowing retreat across Belgium and France, the relentless German advance, and the extraordinary chaos and courage that defined Operation Dynamo. With unflinching honesty and sharp military detail, it captures the exhaustion, camaraderie, and sheer determination of the soldiers who fought their way back to the sea. Published in the same year as the events it describes, this work carries the raw urgency of a dispatch from the front, unfiltered by hindsight or political revision. The authors present a soldier's-eye view of a campaign that history would come to regard as both a catastrophic defeat and a miraculous salvation — a paradox at the very heart of the British wartime spirit. For anyone seeking to understand the human cost behind the legend of Dunkirk, this firsthand testimony remains essential reading.
Author: Gun Buster
Format: Hardback
Published: 1943, Hodder & Stoughton
Genre: WW2
Edition: later repr.,
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: CUSTOM DJ. Page Condition: yellowed with signs of ageing. Markings: No markings. Usual shelf-wear.
Return via Dunkirk stands as one of the most gripping eyewitness accounts of the miraculous evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force from the beaches of northern France in May–June 1940. Written under the pseudonym Gun Buster — the collective pen name of two British artillery officers who lived through the ordeal — the narrative chronicles the harrowing retreat across Belgium and France, the relentless German advance, and the extraordinary chaos and courage that defined Operation Dynamo. With unflinching honesty and sharp military detail, it captures the exhaustion, camaraderie, and sheer determination of the soldiers who fought their way back to the sea. Published in the same year as the events it describes, this work carries the raw urgency of a dispatch from the front, unfiltered by hindsight or political revision. The authors present a soldier's-eye view of a campaign that history would come to regard as both a catastrophic defeat and a miraculous salvation — a paradox at the very heart of the British wartime spirit. For anyone seeking to understand the human cost behind the legend of Dunkirk, this firsthand testimony remains essential reading.