during the few days until the last soldiers of the British Expeditionary Force got away, the key survival as a fighting nation". 186,587 British were evacuated, and 124,999 French and from other allied countries, since 27 May until 4 June, 1940. (“Dunkirk: the necessary myth”. Nicholas Harman, Hodder and Stoughton Limited, London, 1980: 32-33 & 250)
pays: Great Britain
année: 1941
Yvert: 213A
