Barker, A. J., — DUNKIRK - The Great Escape.

Book Club Associates, London, 1977, club edn., 240pp, half tone photo pictorial double title, maps and half tone photo ills. in text, maps at endpapers, large format (9.5 x 7.5 inches approx.), orange cloth lettered in silver at spine, decorated in blind upper board, wraparound pictorial dustwrapper, using material from French, German and British sources the author has produced a complete and authoratative account of the retreat and encirclement of the British Expeditionary Force, of the preparations for Operation Dynamo and the subsequent evacuation from Dunkirk until the surrender of the reqarguard on June 4th, with many contemporary photographs, appendices of the composition of the BEF and a summary of the ships involved and the numbers evacuated, edges alittle tanned, ink inscr. recto front free endpaper and light foxing to half title, dustwrapper: lightly rubbed at extrems., spine sl. sunned, very good in a very good dustwrapper,