Inside The Command Bunker Responsible For The Dunkirk Evacuation

Backs to the wall: Troops wait in line for their turn to be rescued from the beach of Dunkirk

The Dunkirk Spirit Preserved: Dover Castle Opens Secret Tunnels Where Operation Dynamo Evacuation Mission Was Masterminded -- The Daily Mail

When British, French and Belgian troops were cut off and cornered by the German army on a tiny stretch of French coastline in the early summer of 1940, it seemed that the Second World War was about to come to a very abrupt end.

Hitler's stormtroopers and their blitzkrieg tactics had powered through the Low Countries and northern France at lightning speed, and now appeared to have the British Expeditionary Force at their mercy.

But, thanks to a rescue plan hatched below the ramparts of Dover Castle, a victory of sorts was snatched from the hand of defeat.

Read more ....

My Comment: To say that the British were lucky is an understatement.