Dunkirk: The Patrotic Myth.
[1980] · New York
by Harman, Nicholas.
New York: Simon and Schuster, [1980]. Octavo, black cloth & brown board, (hardcover), map illus. endpapers, 271 pp. Fine, in a Near-Fine dust jacket with very slight edgewear. Photos, maps, appendices, notes on sources, index. “For forty years, the battle of Dunkirk has been celebrated as one of the most extraordinary triumphs in British history, but in this astonishing book, Nicholas Harman shows that it was in fact a major defeat, embellished and made glorious by the British propaganda machine...” (Inventory #: 70416s)