Week-end with Zuydcoote is the first novel of Robert Merle. It was worth the to him Prix Goncourt in 1949.

Account

This book is the account of a French private who, at the time of the Opération Dynamo, tries to embark with the British soldiers to join the ground of the England at the time of the Franco-English rout of June 1940 with Dunkirk.

Adaptation to the cinema

This novel was adapted to the cinema by Henri Verneuil in 1964.