Air Power and the Evacuation of Dunkirk: The RAF and Luftwaffe During Operation Dynamo, 26 May - 4 June 1940

by Harry Raffal

Book Overview

The evacuation of Dunkirk has been immortalised in books, prints and films, narrated as a story of an outnumbered, inexperienced RAF defeating the battle-hardened Luftwaffe and protecting the evacuation. This book revives the historiography by analysing the air operations during the evacuation. Raffal draws from German and English sources, many for the first time in the context of Operation DYNAMO, to argue that both sides suffered a defeat over...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350229989
• ISBN13: 9781350229983
• Release Date: March 2023
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"