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Informationen zum Autor Colonel Douglas C. Dildy, (USAF Retired), is an Air Force Academy graduate with degrees in history and political science, who attended the US Armed Forces Staff College and USAF Air War College. As part of his formal military education he has written several campaign studies, most notably on defensive operations against German invasions early in World War II. He is the associate editor of Logbook magazine and has written several articles for other American and British aviation history magazines. This is his fourth book for Osprey. Howard Gerrard studied at the Wallasey School of Art and has been a freelance designer and illustrator for over 20 years. He has worked for a number of publishers and is an associate member of the Guild of Aviation Artists. He has won both the Society of British Aerospace Companies Award and the Wilkinson Sword Trophy and has illustrated a large number of books for Osprey. Klappentext During the Battle of Dunkirk in 1940, German forces successfully cut off several units of British, French and Canadian troops from supporting forces and supplies. Nearly 350,000 Allied troops were left stranded on the beaches and harbor of Dunkirk, in France, amounting to what Winston Churchill called "the whole root, core, and brain of the British Army." Between May 26 and June 4, 1940, in what was named Operation Dynamo, a total of 338,226 soldiers were rescued by hastily assembled boats to British destroyers and other large ships or directly back to England. This book fills a gap in Osprey's coverage of World War II (1939-1945), as no Campaign titles have yet covered the Dunkirk evacuation, and, unlike previous treatments of the subject, provides a description and assessment of the operation from an operation perspective. Author Doug Dildy relates the various overlapping and interconnected struggles--land forces vs. land forces, air forces vs. air forces, air forces vs. naval forces, all in a race against time--and their operational impacts on one another in one coherent, coordinated volume. This is a comprehensive and thoughtful assessment of the operational events leading up to and during Operation Dynamo. Zusammenfassung A comprehensive and thoughtful assessment of the operational events leading up to and during Operation Dynamo. Inhaltsverzeichnis Origins of the campaign ChronologyOpposing commandersOpposing armiesOrders of battleOpposing plansThe campaignAftermathThe battlefield today Further reading Index ...
