May 1940. France is falling. Dunkirk is not ready. And the German war machine is running out of time.
German armored columns have smashed through the Ardennes, crossed the Meuse, and are racing toward the Channel. Allied headquarters are drowning in broken reports, vanished units, and orders that arrive too late to matter. Britain is preparing for evacuation. France is preparing for collapse.
Then a civilian radio engineer in Lyon notices something hidden inside the German wireless traffic.
Not a code.
A rhythm.
The tanks are moving faster than their fuel. The spearheads are outrunning their bridges, repair units, traffic-control posts, and supply columns. The blitzkrieg is still advancing—but for the first time, someone can see where it can be cut.
As Captain Jules Arnaud drives his battered French heavy tanks into the wrong roads at the right time, British liaison officer Sarah Whitmore fights to turn intelligence into orders, Polish pilot Jan Kowalski hunts fuel columns from the air, and German logistics officer Friedrich Keller struggles to keep the advance alive, the Battle of France becomes something no one expected.
A fight for roads.
A fight for bridges.
A fight for fuel.
A fight for time.
The Roads to Dunkirk is Book One of The Long War of 1940, an alternate-history military thriller of strategy, exhaustion, courage, and consequence—where Dunkirk is no longer merely the end of a retreat, but the first place where the war begins to change.
