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2) Dunkirk
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1 videodisc (106 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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A World War II thriller about the evacuation of Allied troops from the French city of Dunkirk before Nazi forces can take hold.
3) Dunkirk
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1 videodisc (approximately 180 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Explores the audacious bid to rescue over 400,000 troops from the British Expeditionary Force besieged on the beaches at Dunkirk, which ranks as one of the greatest maritime evacuations in history. Combines contemporary footage and reenactments to tell the story in 3 episodes.
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1 videodisc (60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Join archaeologists and divers recovering remains of ships and planes lost during World War II's epic Dunkirk operation. Discover new evidence of the ingenious technology that helped save Allied forces from defeat by the encircling Germans.
Archaeologists recover remains of ships and planes lost during World War II's Dunkirk operation.
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English
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While investigating the disappearance of an apprentice craftsman who had been working on a secret government contract, Maisie discovers links to the London underworld.
Spring, 1940. Following Britain's declaration of war on Germany, Maisie Dobbs has been investigating the disappearance of a young apprentice working on a hush-hush government contract. Her investigation leads from the countryside of rural Hampshire to the web of wartime opportunism...
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354 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), map ; 21 cm
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English
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The Battle of Dunkirk, in May/June 1940, is remembered as a stunning defeat, yet a major victory as well. The Nazis had beaten back the Allies and pushed them across France to the northern port of Dunkirk. In the ultimate race against time, more than 300,000 Allied soldiers were daringly evacuated across the Channel. This moment of German aggression was used by Winston Churchill as a call to Franklin Roosevelt to enter the war. Now, historian Joshua...
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xi, 369 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 19 cm
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Español
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"La epica historia real de Dunkerque ahora una Gran Pelicula escrita y dirigida por Christopher Nolan, y protogonizada por Kenneth Branah, Tom Hardy y Mark Rylance. En 1940, en el Puerto frances de Dunkerque, mas de 300,000 tropas alliadas atrapadas fueron damaticamente rescatadas de la destruccion a manos de la Alemania Nazi por una extraordinaria evacuacion maritime. La verdadera historia do los soldados, marineros, aviadores y civiles implicados...
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English
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A gripping account, Dunkirk reveals the British Expeditionary Force's (BEF) brave stand against the German army and the dramatic rescue of 338,000 British troops from the beaches of Dunkirk in the midst of World War II. In May 1940, the small BEF was sent to help the Belgians and French against advancing German forces. Ill equipped and under-trained, the Allied troops conducted a fighting withdrawal in the face of the formidable Germans. Winston Churchill...
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xiv, 525 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
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English
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"Combining epic history with rich family stories, Michael Korda chronicles the outbreak of World War II and the great events that led to Dunkirk. In an absorbing work peopled with world leaders, generals, and ordinary citizens who fought on both sides of World War II, Alone brings to resounding life perhaps the most critical year of twentieth-century history. For, indeed, May 1940 was a month like no other, as the German war machine blazed into France...
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