A World War II thriller about the evacuation of Allied troops from the French city of Dunkirk before Nazi forces can take hold.

The Battle of Dunkirk, in May/June 1940, is remembered as a stunning defeat, yet a major victory as well. The Nazis had beaten back the Allies and pushed them across France to the northern port of Dunkirk. In the ultimate race against time, more than 300,000 Allied soldiers were daringly evacuated across the Channel. This moment of German aggression was used by Winston Churchill as a call to Franklin Roosevelt to enter the war. Now, historian Joshua...

From the publisher. The true story of the World War II evacuation portrayed in the Christopher Nolan film Dunkirk, by the #1 New York Timesb́estselling author of Day of Infamy. In May 1940, the remnants of the French and British armies, broken by Hitlerś blitzkrieg, retreated to Dunkirk. Hemmed in by overwhelming Nazi strength, the 338,000 men gathered on the beach were all that stood between Hitler and Western Europe. Crush them, and the path to...

British Sergeant Williams and one of his men are marooned in an occupied country with only a homeless dog's devotion and a young French girl willing to help them.

"Combining epic history with rich family stories, Michael Korda chronicles the outbreak of World War II and the great events that led to Dunkirk. In an absorbing work peopled with world leaders, generals, and ordinary citizens who fought on both sides of World War II, Alone brings to resounding life perhaps the most critical year of twentieth-century history. For, indeed, May 1940 was a month like no other, as the German war machine blazed into France...

An in-depth retelling of the Battle of Britain, in which the fate of the world lay on the shoulders of the pilots of the Royal Air Force.

World Ware II was an epic conflict in which victory was achieved not only by the brilliant battles strategies of the Allied commanders, but also by the tactical errors and fatal miscalculations of the Axis powers. The German blunder at Dunkirk -- Hitler's declaration of war on the U.S. -- The pilot who bombed London -- Hitler's flying blunders.

In 1935 England, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis witnesses an event involving her sister Cecilia and her childhood friend Robbie Turner, and she becomes the victim of her own imagination, which leads her on a lifelong search for truth and absolution.