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Synopsis
If the Dunkirk Corridor had fallen most of the 340,000 troops at Dunkirk would have been captured, leaving insufficient troops to defend our shores with Britain forced to surrender.
Through tragic letters from relatives of a gunner from Silvertown and contemporary accounts from gunners in his regiment, Barry Ross describes the tense build-up to the defence of the 60 mile long Dunkirk Corridor. The gripping narrative shows how close the Corridor came to collapsing, describing how troops hung on to the last bullet around one of the many strategic defence points, the hill-top town of Cassel.
At long last, the account gives credit to the 40,000 soldiers who were ordered to defend the Corridor regardless of cost, suffering five years imprisonment in the Oflag and Stalag POW Camps in Germany and Poland as a result.
A gripping account that recognises the debt we owe to the 40,000 defenders of the Dunkirk Escape Corridor told in such a calm, laid back way.
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