Dunkirk, Joshua Levine
Dunkirk, Joshua Levine
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Dunkirk
The History Behind the Major Motion Picture

Bestseller

Author: Joshua Levine

Narrator: Jonathan Keeble, Leighton Pugh

Unabridged: 10 hr 43 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 06/27/2017


Synopsis

New York Times BestsellerThe epic true story of Dunkirk—now a major motion picture, written and directed by Christopher Nolan, and starring Kenneth Branagh, Tom Hardy, and Mark RylanceIn 1940, the Allies had been beaten back by the Nazis 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, Joshua Levine, the film's official historian, explores the real lives of those soldiers, bombed and strafed on the beaches for days on end, without food or ammunition; the civilians whose boats were overloaded; the airmen who risked their lives to buy their companions on the ground precious time; and those who did not escape.

About Joshua Levine

Joshua Levine has written six bestselling histories including titles in the hugely popular 'Forgotten Voices' series. ‘Beauty and Atrocity’, his account of the Irish Troubles, was nominated for the Writers' Guild Book of the Year award. ‘On a Wing and a Prayer’, his history of the pilots of the First World War, has been turned into a major British television documentary. He has written and presented a number of programmes for BBC Radio 4. In a previous life, he was a criminal barrister. He lives in London.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Will on May 19, 2023

On 30 May, Frederic Wake-Walker, a naval officer on board HMS Hebe, surveyed the scene from La Panne westwards. It was, he said, ‘One of the most astounding and pathetic sights I have ever seen. Almost the whole ten miles of beach was black from sand-dunes to waterline with tens of thousands of......more

Goodreads review by Hamsa on December 28, 2017

Alright, alright I’m giving this book three stars only, because I’m a bit disappointed :( It’s an interesting book and it contains some good information, but like it was written as someone was telling a story to a friend, and sometimes they’d get distracted and start a different story and never finis......more

Goodreads review by Diane on June 28, 2017

Christopher Nolan, the creative genius behind The Dark Knight (Batman), Inception and Memento turns his eye next to Dunkirk, which tells the true story of a major British military evacuation off the coast of Belgium during WWII. Dunkirk is based on a book of the same name by historian Joshua Levine.......more

Goodreads review by Fabi on October 27, 2017

Gostei muito deste livro! Para quem goste de história é o livro ideal! Aprendi muito com está leitura!......more

Goodreads review by Daniela on November 02, 2017

Quando comecei a ler "Dunkirk - A História real que inspirou o filme", pensei que iria encontrar em primeiro lugar uma descrição muito detalhada do que foi a realização do filme. Mas a verdade é que deparei-me com os factos verídicos do que foi o "milagre de Dunquerque". Antes de ouvir falar do fil......more