Three Little Ships
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Lilian Harry's engrossing wartime saga about the heroes and heroines of Dunkirk.During just nine days in the early summer of 1940, nearly eight hundred 'little ships', from lifeboats and passenger... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0752867180
ISBN13:9780752867182
Release Date:January 2006
Publisher:Orion Publishing Group
Length:358 Pages
Weight:1.50 lbs.
Dimensions:1.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"
Customer Reviews
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Ms. Harry best book so far
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 18 years ago
"Three Little Ships" has to be the best book by Lilian Harry so far. She tells the story of the evaction of Dunkirk from the point of view of the three captains of boat that were call upon to rescue trapped BEF who trapped on the French Beach in the mid 1940's. She also gives the readed an idea about what it must have been like waiting on the beach, hoping to make it off before the Germans came. To me, this is the best book that Ms. Harry has done to date and I can't wait to read more by her.
Cockleshell heros
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 19 years ago
In the early summer of 1940, the British army was forced into retreat by the invading German army, which was swarming over France. In a desperate attempt to return the soldiers to England, so that the British army could regroup, Winston Churchill called upon the owners of any kind of seacraft, over 30 feet long, to travel in a convoy to the sea port of Dunkirk in France, to help pick up the men stranded on the beach and to ferry them to waiting naval ships for their return to England. The naval vessels were too big to get in close enpugh to the shore, so smaller craft with a shallow draw were essential. Boating people from all over the land volunteered their vessels and the most amazing armada since the days of Drake, was formed and was either towed by bigger boats or went under their own steam. This is the simply, but effectively told story of three separate families who took part in this valiant operation. For days on end, these tiny boats plied backwards and forwards, ferrying the soldiers, with themselves being under constant strafing and bombing attacks from the Luftwaffe. It's a story of the great courage shown by ordinary people when driven to the edge by the unspeakable horrors of war.
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