The only option left was to retreat to Dunkirk, where they could be taken back to England. With the majority of Britain and France's entire armies in one area - surrounded by the Germans - this ...
The war did not stop with the Dunkirk retreat, not at all. But the British could defend their island, which, in Ben Op terms, was like a monastery. Similarly with us, we can better defend our ...
After 10 May, he and his unit were ordered back into France and he was witness to some terrifying Luftwaffe bombing as the Allied retreat got under way. Then he was told to 'get back to Dunkirk ...
Many of the men could not take their animals on the retreat and gave them away to local people in France, according to the same account. Historian John Broich says the Indian soldiers in Dunkirk ...
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the British Expeditionary Force and the remnants of the French army were trapped in a pocket around the port of Dunkirk after a desperate headlong retreat. This is the story of the incredible ...
Camilla, 76, will view a World War II tunic that belonged to Major Bruce Shand, a 12th Royal Lancer who won the Military Cross during the retreat to Dunkirk in 1940 and again at El Alamein in 1942.