{"product_id":"dunkirk-the-british-evacuation-1040","title":"Dunkirk: The British Evacuation 1940","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis is the story of the dark days of 1940, when defeat overtook the British Expeditionary Force in Flanders and the ghost of a great army came home from France.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt is the story of a lost campaign, as untried young men armed with little more than rifles took on the might of Hitler's panzer divisions while the Allied armies crumbled on all sides. It is the story of French soldiers too, whose heroism and sacrifice made the deliverance of Dunkirk possible.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt was the greatest disaster in British military history: the Second World War was all but lost. Yet from the rout rose that legendary spirit that somehow found triumph in defeat, success in the extraordinary evacuation of so many men from beneath the German guns.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRobert Jackson's closely detailed account of three weeks of battle, and the nine days it took an armada of ships to evacuate 198,000 troops, recalls with startling clarity how unprepared were the British for war in 1940.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Robert Jackson","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50532373069993,"sku":"9781407214634","price":14.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0424\/9518\/0962\/files\/IMG_0916.jpg?v=1791688172","url":"https:\/\/roseyravelstonbooks.com.au\/products\/dunkirk-the-british-evacuation-1040","provider":"RoseyRavelston Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}