Alone: Britain, Churchill, and Dunkirk: Defeat into Victory - Couverture souple

"...a superb retelling of the extraordinary story of May 1940, which in my view can never be told enough....[Korda] has a fine eye for telling detail, as well as for the big issues and all the personalities involved...An exciting work of history; I loved it." Andrew Roberts, BBC History Magazine

In an absorbing work peopled with world leaders, generals and ordinary citizens who fought on both sides of the Second World War, 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 while the supposedly impregnable Maginot Line crumbled, and Winston Churchill replaced Neville Chamberlain as prime minister in an astonishing political drama as Britain, isolated and alone, faced a triumphant Nazi Germany.

Against this vast historical canvas, Michael Korda relates what happened and why, and also tells his own story, that of a six-year-old boy in a glamorous movie family who would himself be evacuated. Alone is a work that seamlessly weaves a family memoir into an unforgettable account of a political and military disaster redeemed by the evacuation of more than 300,000 men in four days surely one of the most heroic episodes of the war.

--Times Literary Supplement

"[Alone] vividly brings to life events which saw Britain stand alone as the only nation with the resolve and courage to defy Hitler."

--Britain at War Magazine

"A very compelling account of how calamitous defeat somehow became a celebrated victory."