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At the end of May 1940, Western Europe hung in the balance. France was disintegrating, Nazi armies poured like a tide of steel through the Netherlands and Belgium, and virtually the whole British Expeditionary Force, together with thousands of French and Belgian soldiers, was ringed and battered against the sea with its back to the Channel. Surrounded, bombarded, and with their backs to the sea, the Allied troops were concentrated on the beaches of a small French seaport town: Dunkirk. What would unfold in the nine days following the 26th of May, 1940, would go into the record books, not just as a military evacuation, but as a close-to-mythical rescue. Operation Dynamo, the salvation of more than 330,000 men, rescued