As supreme military commander, Hitler had seemingly achieved a miracle after the swift capitulation of Holland and Belgium, but just seven kilometres outside Dunkirk – the only port through which the trapped British Expeditionary Force might escape – the panzers came to a shuddering stop. Hitler had lost control of his stunning advance. 

Only a detailed interpretation of the German perspective – historically lacking to date – can provide answers as to why.

Drawing on his own military experience, his German- language skills and his historian’s eye for detail, Robert Kershaw creates a new history of this famous battle which delves into the under-evaluated major miscalculations of the Germans, both strategic and tactical, that arguably cost Hitler the war.

This is a stunning new history of a battle we thought we knew.