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[Read by Jonathan Keeble] The official tie-in to the blockbuster Christopher Nolan film Dunkirk (July 2017) , by the film's official historian, with background on the film as well as the epic true story of Dunkirk. The epic history of Dunkirk, May 1940: when over 300,000 trapped Allied troops were dramatically rescued from destruction at the hands of Nazi Germany by an extraordinary seaborne evacuation. The true history of the soldiers, sailors, airmen and civilians involved in the evacuation during the nine days from 27 May to 4 June 1940 has passed into legend. Now the subject of an epic motion picture from director Christopher Nolan, starring Kenneth Branagh, Tom Hardy, Cillian Murphy, Mark Rylance and Harry Styles -- the story Winston Churchill described as a 'miracle' is described by bestselling author Joshua Levine in its full, sweeping context.