Tigers at dunkirk. The Leicestershire Regiment and the Fall of France
(2010)
Nonfiction
eBook
Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : Pen & Sword Books, 2010
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DESCRIPTION
1 online resource
ISBN/ISSN
9781783033515 (electronic bk.) MWT13255846, 1783033517 (electronic bk.) 13255846
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
In this compelling new study of the disastrous 1940 campaign in France and Flanders, Matthew Richardson reconstructs in vivid detail the British armys 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
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