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The Evacuation from Dunkirk - 'Operation Dynamo', 26 May-June 1940 (Paperback)
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The Evacuation from Dunkirk - 'Operation Dynamo', 26 May-June 1940 (Paperback)
Series: Naval Staff Histories
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This is the Naval Staff History of "Operation Dynamo," originally
published internally in 1949. British ships evacuated nearly
100,000 men of the BEF from the beaches, and over 200,000 from
harbours. Other nations' vessels carried more than 30,000. Scores
of ships were lost during the operation, and many more were
seriously damaged, but a very large proportion of the British Army
had been rescued in the teeth of continual air attack, from an
every-shrinking perimeter. The troops then had to be transported
across the Channel in the face of enemy aircraft, mines, torpedoes,
and fire from the shore, through waters unlit and strewn with
wrecks.
Although the campaign was, in Churchill's words, "an unmitigated
defeat," there is much to take pride in, and many lessons to be
learned from this operation. The appedices include a list of ships
which took part in "Operation Dynamo," and numbers of troops
transported.
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