1940 the Second World War in Photographs: Britain Stands Alone Paperback Book

1940 the Second World War in PhotographsBritain Stands Alone\nAuthor(s): John Christopher, Campbell McCutcheon\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Amberley Publishing, United Kingdom\nImprint: Amberley Publishing\nISBN-13: 9781445622071, 978-1445622071\nSynopsis\n1940 As the period of the Phoney War came to an end, the Nazis unleashed their Blitzkrieg tactics, which saw the rapid mobility of the ground forces closely supported by superior air power. The Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark and Norway fell in the spring, and the British Expeditionary Force made a hasty retreat from the beaches of Dunkirk in Operation Dynamo. Winston Churchill, the new Prime Minister of the coalition government, described the evacuation of thousands of troops by an armada of little vessels as a miracle. But, following the fall of France in June, he issued a sombre warning that Britain now fought alone. The nations fate was in the hands of the Few, the men of fighter command who fought to hold back Grings Luftwaffe.