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The Sands of Dunkirk

by Collier, Richard · 1961

Cover of The Sands of Dunkirk
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The hour-by-hour, eye-witness account of nine days in 1940 when the Germans almost won World War II. Trapped between German armored forces and the sea soldiers marched, ran and crawled through the blazing towns to the beaches in Dunkirk, France. Their rescue is one of the great stories of the war.

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