Book reveals escape from Dunkirk plan
A SKETCH used to aid the Dunkirk escape is among rare finds in a new book on the Second World War.
It also features extracts from letters and diaries, maps and posters charting the global conflict.
The War on Paper: 20 Documents That Defined the Second World War, has Adolf Hitler’s directive ordering the invasion of Poland and Winston Churchill’s annotated “End of the Beginning” speech.
There is also the hastily scribbled “diagrammatic lay out of embarkation” by Captain Ken Theobald, of the 5th Battalion Royal West Kent Regiment, which was used by the British army to flee from Dunkirk beaches in 1940.
The drawing is one of five pull-out replica documents in the book.