Tigers at Dunkirk: The Leicestershire Regiment and the Fall of France

ISBN-13: 9781848842106 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 160 str.

Matthew Richardson

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In this compelling new study of the disastrous 1940 campaign in France and Flanders, Matthew Richardson reconstructs in vivid detail the British army s defeat as it was experienced by the soldiers of a single battalion, the 2nd/5th Leicesters. These men typified the ill-equipped, under-trained British battalions that faced the blitzkrieg and the might of Hitler's legions. They were thrown into a series of desperate, one-sided engagements that resulted in a humiliating retreat, then evacuation from Dunkirk. This is their story."