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Article: Dunkirk: The Men They Left Behind.(Brief article)(Book review)
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- Contemporary Review
- Article date:
- December 22, 2008
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Dunkirk: The Men They Left Behind. Sean Longden. Constable. [pounds sterling]20.00. xiv + 466 pages. ISBN 978-1-84529-520-5. This is Mr Longden's third book on the Second World War and here he examines not the 'miracle' of Dunkirk but those soldiers who did not get away in the little boats. While 338,226 men escaped safely, over 68,000 were left behind: the dead, the wounded, and those still fighting, including the 51st Highland Division. Those who survived the long march eastwards became POWs and faced five terrible years of ...