1940 the Second World War in Photographs: Britain Stands Alone

by Campbell McCutcheon and John Christopher

1940 As the period of the 'Phoney War' came to an end, the Nazis unleashed their Blitzkrieg tactics, which saw the rapid mobility of the ground forces closely supported by superior air power. The Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark and Norway fell in the spring, and the British Expeditionary Force made a hasty retreat from the beaches of Dunkirk in Operation Dynamo. Winston Churchill, the new Prime Minister of the coalition government, described the evacuation...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1445622076
• ISBN13: 9781445622071
• Release Date: September 2014
• Publisher: Amberley Publishing
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.5" x 9.1"