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Rescooped by Skuuppilehdet from Year 9: World Wars; Nazi Germany |
Kent College History's curator insight,
July 21, 2017 1:03 PM
'In 1940, as British troops retreated through France under fire from an advancing German Army, a massive evacuation was launched to bring the soldiers safely home. Between 26 May and 4 June 1940, a mammoth 338,000 troops were rescued from the beaches of Dunkirk, France, in the remarkable Operation Dynamo. Ahead of the release of Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk in UK cinemas this weekend, military historian James Holland shares some lesser-known facts about the evacuation, and the fighting that led up to it …'
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