

Hero image 0 of Operation Aerial: Churchill's Second Miracle of Deliverance (Paperback), 0 of 1
Operation Aerial: Churchill's Second Miracle of Deliverance (Paperback)
(No ratings yet)
Key item features
Operation Aerial: Churchill's Second Miracle of Deliverance (Paperback)
Specs
- Book formatPaperback
- Fiction/nonfictionNon-Fiction
- GenreHistory
- Publication dateMay, 2024
- Pages272
- Reading levelGeneral
Current price is USD$24.58
Price when purchased online
Out of stock
How do you want your item?
Out of stock
About this item
Product details
Dunkirk resonates through British history. The "miracle of deliverance", as Prime Minister Winston Churchill described the evacuation of nearly 340,000 troops from the small French port, in most people's minds marks the end of British involvement in France in 1940.
Dunkirk finally fell to the advancing German forces but it was far from the end of the story. Tens of thousands of troops and British civilians were still in France. By the end of June, a further 250,000 people had been brought back to the United Kingdom.
This is the story of that second miracle of deliverance that has never been fully told.
Operation Aerial was an audacious plan to bring home the disparate units of the BEF that were cut off south of the River Somme or isolated near the Maginot Line as the Germans - and Rommel's tanks in particular - advanced in May and early June 1940. This evacuation was also to include thousands of British citizens who were trapped in France and given little guidance beyond instructions to head to ports on the west coast. Dunkirk had been a military evacuation and civilians had not been catered for.
The Royal Navy, supported by a fleet of merchant navy ships, worked its way down the western coast of France trying to keep one step ahead of the Germans. As one port was captured they moved down the coast to the next from Cherbourg, to St Malo, to Brest, to Saint-Nazaire, to Lorient, to La Rochelle, to Bordeaux, to Bayonne and finally Saint-Jean-de-Luz.
Operation Aerial is almost unknown alongside Operation Dynamo partly because it doesn't have the romance of the little ships but also due to controversies, disasters and accusations of a cover-up.
Amid these controversies are stories of incredible resourcefulness, simple courage and remarkable heroism, underpinned by largely excellent organization and command.
There were the nurses on board the hospital ships who returned time and time again despite being attacked, the demolition teams that stayed until the Germans were breathing down their necks and took their chance when it came to being evacuated, and the many ordinary soldiers and civilians who struggled through the chaos, confusion and disintegration of France to get back home so they could continue the battle against Hitler.
Now it is time that story was told.
Dunkirk finally fell to the advancing German forces but it was far from the end of the story. Tens of thousands of troops and British civilians were still in France. By the end of June, a further 250,000 people had been brought back to the United Kingdom.
This is the story of that second miracle of deliverance that has never been fully told.
Operation Aerial was an audacious plan to bring home the disparate units of the BEF that were cut off south of the River Somme or isolated near the Maginot Line as the Germans - and Rommel's tanks in particular - advanced in May and early June 1940. This evacuation was also to include thousands of British citizens who were trapped in France and given little guidance beyond instructions to head to ports on the west coast. Dunkirk had been a military evacuation and civilians had not been catered for.
The Royal Navy, supported by a fleet of merchant navy ships, worked its way down the western coast of France trying to keep one step ahead of the Germans. As one port was captured they moved down the coast to the next from Cherbourg, to St Malo, to Brest, to Saint-Nazaire, to Lorient, to La Rochelle, to Bordeaux, to Bayonne and finally Saint-Jean-de-Luz.
Operation Aerial is almost unknown alongside Operation Dynamo partly because it doesn't have the romance of the little ships but also due to controversies, disasters and accusations of a cover-up.
Amid these controversies are stories of incredible resourcefulness, simple courage and remarkable heroism, underpinned by largely excellent organization and command.
There were the nurses on board the hospital ships who returned time and time again despite being attacked, the demolition teams that stayed until the Germans were breathing down their necks and took their chance when it came to being evacuated, and the many ordinary soldiers and civilians who struggled through the chaos, confusion and disintegration of France to get back home so they could continue the battle against Hitler.
Now it is time that story was told.
Operation Aerial: Churchill's Second Miracle of Deliverance (Paperback)
info:
We aim to show you accurate product information. Manufacturers, suppliers and others provide what you see here, and we have not verified it. Â
Specifications
Book format
Paperback
Fiction/nonfiction
Non-Fiction
Genre
History
Publication date
May, 2024
Warranty
Warranty information
Please be aware that the warranty terms on items offered for sale by third party Marketplace sellers may differ from those displayed in this section (if any). To confirm warranty terms on an item offered for sale by a third party Marketplace seller, please use the 'Contact seller' feature on the third party Marketplace seller's information page and request the item's warranty terms prior to purchase.
Similar items you might like
Based on what customers bought
The Book of Flaco: The World's Most Famous Bird, (Paperback) $19.92
$1992current price $19.92The Book of Flaco: The World's Most Famous Bird, (Paperback)
Just Show Up: Ya Gotta Do It Anyway, (Paperback) $13.07
$1307current price $13.07Just Show Up: Ya Gotta Do It Anyway, (Paperback)
One Freeman's War: In the Second American Revolution, (Paperback) $19.95
$1995current price $19.95One Freeman's War: In the Second American Revolution, (Paperback)
Colección TeologÃÂa BÃÂblica Y Sistemática PneumatologÃÂa: Doctrina del EspÃÂritu Santo 4, (Paperback) $9.00 Was $10.59
$900current price $9.00, Was $10.59$10.59Colección TeologÃÂa BÃÂblica Y Sistemática PneumatologÃÂa: Doctrina del EspÃÂritu Santo 4, (Paperback)
Second Son: The Man in the Iron Mask, (Paperback) $29.17
$2917current price $29.17Second Son: The Man in the Iron Mask, (Paperback)
The Lion's Army: Discover the Ways of the Spirit for the Last Days, (Paperback) $9.76
$976current price $9.76The Lion's Army: Discover the Ways of the Spirit for the Last Days, (Paperback)
34.7 out of 5 Stars. 3 reviewsWhat I Saw in London: Or, Men and Things in the Great Metropolis (Large Print Edition) Paperback $24.20
$2420current price $24.20What I Saw in London: Or, Men and Things in the Great Metropolis (Large Print Edition) Paperback
Ebenezer: National Security from a Biblical Perspective (Paperback) $24.69
$2469current price $24.69Ebenezer: National Security from a Biblical Perspective (Paperback)
The Valkyrie Genesis: Faces of Invasion, (Paperback) $21.53
$2153current price $21.53The Valkyrie Genesis: Faces of Invasion, (Paperback)
The Compassion of a Deadly Enemy (Paperback) $16.56
$1656current price $16.56The Compassion of a Deadly Enemy (Paperback)
The Great Mosaic Eye (Paperback) $22.65
$2265current price $22.65The Great Mosaic Eye (Paperback)
Spring Victory: Stalin's Glossed Over Crime, (Paperback) $8.91
$891current price $8.91Spring Victory: Stalin's Glossed Over Crime, (Paperback)
The Interior Light - Activate your greatness, (Paperback) $16.13
$1613current price $16.13The Interior Light - Activate your greatness, (Paperback)
British Liberty Vindicated; Or, a Delineation of the King's Bench., (Paperback) $12.95 Was $15.75
$1295current price $12.95, Was $15.75$15.75British Liberty Vindicated; Or, a Delineation of the King's Bench., (Paperback)
Robin Hood's Journey to Success, (Paperback) $14.78
$1478current price $14.78Robin Hood's Journey to Success, (Paperback)
Magic for Dummies, (Paperback) $21.10 Was $23.47
$2110current price $21.10, Was $23.47$23.47Magic for Dummies, (Paperback)
The Secrets to Maintaining Your Deliverance: Strategies for Lasting Freedom!, (Paperback) $9.07
$907current price $9.07The Secrets to Maintaining Your Deliverance: Strategies for Lasting Freedom!, (Paperback)
Britain in Old Photographs: The Best of Shropshire (Paperback) $18.29
$1829current price $18.29Britain in Old Photographs: The Best of Shropshire (Paperback)
Pre-Owned Gray's Anatomy Review (Paperback) 0443069387 9780443069383 $6.61
2 optionsAvailable in additional 2 options$661current price $6.61Pre-Owned Gray's Anatomy Review (Paperback) 0443069387 9780443069383
Don't Spoil My Beautiful Face: Media, Mayhem and Human Rights in the Pacific, (Paperback) $28.54
$2854current price $28.54Don't Spoil My Beautiful Face: Media, Mayhem and Human Rights in the Pacific, (Paperback)
Customer ratings & reviews
0 ratings|0 reviews
This item does not have any reviews yet
