Hundreds of fishing boats, pleasure yachts, and commercial vessels streamed into the Channel to back up the Royal Navy, and in a week nearly the entire army was ferried safely back to England. As Colonel-in-Chief of The Royal Lancers and the daughter of a 12th Royal Lancer, I am enormously proud of the Regiment’s long and illustrious history. During his time in Europe, where he eventually takes part in the evacuation from Dunkirk, he encounters both racism and comradeship from fellow soldiers and others that he meets.

On the second day they find a German convoy of captured Allied vehicles and tag themselves onto the end. Every once in awhile, Lord provides the German or French perspective (I wish there had been more from the Germans).Please note this is different to a voucher code or discount code as they are to be used when checking out. Churchill was very cognizant of French sensitivities as he was afraid of losing an ally at a time when things were becoming desperate.

This emotive poetry anthology from former Children’s Laureate, Michael Rosen, explores the plight of refugees today, Rosen's childhood as part of a Jewish family in post-war London, his family's' memories of the war, and the fate of relatives who disappeared in Nazi Germany. The anti-French bias is such that whatever they do is wrong: "The French seemed to know a thousand ways to slow down the embarkation.He wrote the book when he could still talk to eyewitnesses and participants, and I found myself getting sucked in, more than I was expecting when the big infodumps started. Elsewhere, hospitals full of the sick and wounded who had been left behind to receive treatment from the enemy’s doctors. Lord also does a marvelous job detailing the intricate and frosty relationship between England and France, especially as the Germans began to turn their attention away from Dunkirk and moved their panzer divisions to conquer Paris. Never again, after Mr Longden's excellent work, shall we see the plight of POWs as anything other than unremittingly monstrous. A story of small boats that came to the rescue of a stranded Army on the beaches of Dunkirk: brave soldiers who would have died, or been captured had it not been for the flotilla that came to their rescue.

Fact-filled, swift-paced, and exciting, never flinching from the brutalities of war, this novel relates the experience of a 16-year-old recruit whose introduction to war is the events which caused the evacuation of troops from Dunkirk in 1940.Dunkirk: The Men They Left Behind is a new and controversial study of one of the most enduring tales in modern British history – the evacuation of the British army from Dunkirk in 1940. Then, when you are expecting racist antagonism from all quarters, you read of kind, humane characters who accept the Indian soldiers as equals and who treat them with great respect.

They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples.

While Phil Watson’s Their Greatest Hour recounts only 21 days of fierce operations in the Lancers’ 334-year life, their rear-guard activity during the retreat to Dunkirk was their zenith. It presents three important elements of the rescue; the outnumbered brave British pilots who met and tried to neutralize German Stukas, the employment of anything that would float represented by a family fishing boat, and the men stuck on the French beaches trying to survive German bombing. Operation Dynamo involved the coordinated effort of the Royal Navy, the Royal Air Force (RAF), and a flotilla of civilian boats.