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As dramatized in Christopher Nolan’s film Dunkirk , May 1940 was a month like no other: Germany’s war machine blazed into France, the impregnable Maginot Line crumbled, and Winston Churchill replaced Neville Chamberlain as prime minister as Britain, isolated and alone, faced a triumphant Nazi Germany. Against this vast canvas, best-selling author Michael Korda relates his own personal story, “by turns charming, powerful and poignant” ( Minneapolis Star Tribune ): that of a six-year-old boy from a glamorous movie family who would himself be evacuated. Weaving together “eyewitness detail and a fine sense of drama” ( Boston Globe ) to form an epic of remarkable originality, Alone movingly captures a moment of historic triumph—when an unlikely flotilla of destroyers brought 300,000 men home to safety.","forthcoming":false,"isbn13":"9781631494918","publication_date":"20180911","publisher":"WW Norton","slug":"alone","subtitle":"Britain, Churchill, and Dunkirk: Defeat Into Victory","title":"Alone"},"discovery":{"categories":{"all":[{"bisac_code":"HIS027370","confidence_band":"medium","label":"World War II: European Theater","score":0.7812,"source":"bisac_hint_model"},{"bisac_code":"HIS027100","confidence_band":"medium","label":"World War II History","score":0.7675,"source":"bisac_hint_model"},{"bisac_code":"HIS015070","confidence_band":"medium","label":"20th-Century Britain","score":0.7664,"source":"bisac_hint_model"}],"hint":[{"bisac_code":"HIS027370","confidence_band":"medium","label":"World War II: European Theater","score":0.7812,"source":"bisac_hint_model"},{"bisac_code":"HIS027100","confidence_band":"medium","label":"World War II History","score":0.7675,"source":"bisac_hint_model"},{"bisac_code":"HIS015070","confidence_band":"medium","label":"20th-Century Britain","score":0.7664,"source":"bisac_hint_model"}],"publisher":[{"bisac_code":"BIO026000","confidence_band":"high","label":"Personal Memoirs","score":1,"source":"onix_publisher_code"},{"bisac_code":"HIS015070","confidence_band":"high","label":"20th-Century Britain","score":1,"source":"onix_publisher_code"}]},"genres":[{"label":"World War II: European Theater","score":0.7812,"slug":"world-war-ii-european-theater"},{"label":"World War II History","score":0.7675,"slug":"world-war-ii-history"},{"label":"20th-Century Britain","score":0.7664,"slug":"20th-century-britain"}],"reader_fit":["Good for readers interested in narrative histories of Dunkirk and World War II Britain","Readers drawn to accounts that weave personal childhood experience into wartime history"],"related_lists":[],"series":null,"similar_books":[{"authors":["John Lee","Erik Larson","Random House Audio"],"book_id":"9780385348737","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9780385348737.jpg?v=ebf08823618a51e6","score":0.7202,"title":"The Splendid and the Vile","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9780385348737"},{"authors":["Tim Bouverie"],"book_id":"9780593138366","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9780593138366.jpg?v=d615267d97858c39","score":0.7115,"title":"Allies at War","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9780593138366"},{"authors":["David Howarth","Stephen Ambrose"],"book_id":"9781493023455","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9781493023455.jpg?v=7e51d9218bf17727","score":0.7097,"title":"We Die Alone","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9781493023455"},{"authors":["Alan Allport"],"book_id":"9780451494764","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9780451494764.jpg?v=ae17ba1d1aea1893","score":0.7055,"title":"Advance Britannia","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9780451494764"},{"authors":["Andrew Roberts","Stephen Thorne","Penguin Audio"],"book_id":"9781101980996","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9781101980996.jpg?v=aeb32f4eeb5b6ae2","score":0.7009,"title":"Churchill","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9781101980996"},{"authors":["James Holland"],"book_id":"9780802148964","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9780802148964.jpg?v=16838bb8486484aa","score":0.6845,"title":"Normandy '44","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9780802148964"},{"authors":["Winston S. 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