Dunkirk and the Evacuation of Western Europe
by
Henry Buckton
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
At around 7 p.m. on 26 May 1940, Prime Minister Winston Churchill gave the order for Operation Dynamo, the evacuation of British troops from the harbour and beaches of Dunkirk. The German forces that had attacked through the Netherlands, Belgium and the Ardennes into France on 10 May had rapidly driven...