Ebook: After Dunkirk: Churchill's Sacrifice of the Highland Division

On 12 June 1940, more than a week after the last British troops had been evacuated from Dunkirk, the 51st (Highland) Division was forced to surrender to General Erwin Rommel's 7th Panzer Division at St Valery-en-Caux. More than 10,000 members of the Division were driven into five years of captivity in prison camps.

Drawing upon over 100 personal interviews with survivors of the battle, upon unit war diaries, personal letters and journals, as well as official documents and reports, the author traces the story of the Highland Division from its arrival in France, through the excitement of patrol operations in front of the Maginot Line and its magnificent defensive battles on the Somme and the Bresle, to the final, desperate stand in the little Norman seaport of St Valery.

Saul David is Professor of War Studies at the University of Buckingham and the author of several critically-acclaimed history books, including 'The Indian Mutiny: 1857' (shortlisted for the Westminster Medal for Military Literature), 'Zulu: The Heroism' and 'Tragedy of the Zulu War of 1879' (a Waterstone's Military History Book of the Year) and 'Victoria's Wars: The Rise of Empire'.

An experienced broadcaster, Saul David has presented and appeared in history programmes for all the major TV channels and is a regular contributor to Radio.