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Sunday Book Review

August 7, 2022 the Dunkirk Contrarian edition

In today’s edition of Sunday Book Review:

  1. Blitzkrieg in Their Own Words: First-Hand Accounts From German Soldiers 1939-1940 Edited by Heinz Guderian
  2. Panzer Commander: The Memoirs of Hans von Luck By Hans von Luck
  3. Flames of Calais: The Soldier’s Battle, 1940 By Airey Neave
  4. Week-End A Zuydcoote By Robert Merle
  5. DUNKIRK: The Necessary Myth By Nicholas Harman

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Wall Street Journal Bookshelf

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12 O’Clock High-a podcast on business leadership

12 O’Clock High-Episode 55, Leadership Lessons from Dunkirk

Dunkirk and the leadership lessons can be drawn from the movie and historical events. If you have not seen it, I suggest you go to see what I believe is the summer’s top movie, Dunkirk. It is great cinema, has a good history, and presents the view of soldiers on the ground from the English perspective. It unfolds on land, sea, and air; in decreasing time frames of one week, one day, and one hour. I was lucky enough to see it on glorious 70MM widescreen, so the resolution was outstanding. I believe several leadership lessons can be learned from the British (and German) experiences at Dunkirk. Every business leader should study Dunkirk for key lessons on leadership.