British forces are evacuated from Dunkirk. Richard Holmes describes how ... approximately 338,000 Allied troops were evacuated from the beaches of northern France. Whilst this was far men than ...

Demoralised, starving and exhausted, the men waiting on the beaches of Dunkirk endured days of fierce bombardment, while many of the boats that came to their rescue were sunk, with heavy loss of life.

A ship berthed in Hartlepool that played a key part in one of the defining moments of the Second World War is hoped to return to the scene of her “finest hour”.