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Battle site · The Road to War, 1931–1941

Dunkirk

Map showing Dunkirk — The Road to War, 1931–1941
BATTLE SITE · THE ROAD TO WAR, 1931–1941

26 May–4 Jun 1940 — The trapped British army escapes by sea: 338,000 men lifted off the beaches by warships, ferries and yachts. A deliverance, Churchill warns, not a victory.

This is one scene of Chapter 9 — The Fall of the West in The Road to War, 1931–1941.

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