DUNKIRK: THE MEN THEY LEFT BEHIND

Author: Sean Longden

Publisher: Constable

Year published: 2009

Pagination: 589pp illustrations

Condition: Very good in card covers

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For the first time, rather than telling the tale of the 300,000 who escaped, Sean Longden reveals the story of the 40,000 men sacrificed in the rearguard battles. On the beaches and sand dunes, besides the roads lay the corpses of those who had not reached the boats. Further afield, still fighting was the entire 51st Highland Division, whose war had not finished as the last boats slipped away. Also in the countryside were hundreds of soldiers who had also missed the boats and were now desperately trying to make their own way home, either by walking across France or rowing across the channel. The majority, however,became prisoners of war who were forced to walk on the death marches all the way to the camps in Germany and Poland.