Ebook: Dunkirk 1940: How Untrained Troops of the Labour Divisions were Sacrificed to Save an Army

Cover; Title; Dedication; Acknowledgements; Contents; Chapter One 'A specified Dimension Within a Specified Time'; Chapter Two Wagging the Dog; Chapter Three 'You are No Longer Saturday Night Soldiers'; Chapter Four Leaving Much to Be Desired; Chapter Five Seeing the Wood for the Trees; Chapter Six The Matador's Cloak and the Revolving Door; Chapter Seven 'More Gallantly than Advisedly'; Chapter Eight 'Very Brave, but Very, Very Stupid'; Chapter Nine 'We Happen to Be Going that Way'; Chapter Ten 'Heroic But Thoroughly Unsound'; Chapter Eleven The Sixth Wheel.;They called it 'the slaughter of the innocents'. The barely trained and poorly equipped men of the Labour Divisions were never meant to fight but when the German blitzkreig sliced through the Allied armies they were all that stood in the way of the annihilation of the British Expeditionary Force. Paying with their lives they bought precious time as the army fell back towards Dunkird and long after the last of the little ships reached home, the men of the Labour Divisions fought on. Durnkirk 1940: Whereabouts Unknown uses official reports, diaries and personal accounts to tell the story of the.