Unique and historically significant films shot 75 years ago, during the evacuation ... maps and visual materials housed in the Library. John Hodgson, Manuscripts and Archives Manager, said: “This is a ...
Movies: Dunkirk, Bombers and the Bombed ... This is the story of the incredible evacuation of 340,000 Allied troops, snatched from the jaws of defeat.
Grehan, who has written extensively on British military history, and was an editor of The BEF in France 1939-1940: Manning the Front through to the Dunkirk Evacuation (2014), gives us a very detailed ...
Following the invasion of France in May 1940, the British Expeditionary Force and parts of the French Army had retreated to Dunkirk and awaited evacuation, while German forces had been closing in ...