Retreat & Rearguard: Dunkirk 1940: The Evacuation of the BEF to the Channel Ports

The dramatic story of how a quarter million men were evacuated from the coast of France—and how the British Expeditionary Force fought on.

This book, part of the Retreat and Rearguard series, covers the actions of the BEF during the retreat from the Dyle Line to the evacuation points of Dunkirk, Boulogne, Calais, Saint-Valery-en-Caux, and finally the Cherbourg Peninsula.

Some of the engagements are relatively well known (Cassell, the Arras counter-attack, and the notorious Le Paradis S...