OPERATION DYNAMO. Dunkerque 1940.

Four years before the Allied landings in Normandy, the French coastline was the scene of another major episode of the Second World War. This was Operation Dynamo, much less known today than D-Day. And yet, it is enough to recall a few figures to measure the importance of this page of the history of the Campaign of France: between the 27 May and 4 June, nearly 350,000 British and French soldiers were evacuated from the Dunkirk pocket by a motley fleet of 850 vessels, including hundreds of fishing, pleasure craft, rescue vessels and Merchant Marine. Thanks to the courage of the sailors and the efficiency of the Royal Air Force pilots, this unprecedented operation was a success which enabled the Allies to continue the war against the Germans, Essential of their equipment and armaments. Nearly 80 years later, Jean-Charles Stasi, author of several successful books published by Heimdal publishes this major fact of the last world conflict, from genesis to its consequences, in a book with alert style, illustrated with numerous photographs in Black and white and color, as well as maps, computer graphics, aircraft profiles and boats.