Joshua Levine

In 1940, at the French port of Dunkirk, more than 300,000 trapped Allied troops were heroically rescued from destruction at the hands of Nazi Germany by an extraordinary seaborne evacuation. This is a dramatic account of a defeat that paved the way to ultimate victory and preserved liberty for generations to come.

The men who joined the Royal Flying Corps in 1914 were the original heroes of flying, treading into unknown territory, and paving the way for later aerial combat. The adventures of these men are almost totally unknown, and this book tells their story, in their own words, for the first time.