... whole of the British Expedi tionary Force. Our Army and 120,000 French troops were, indeed, rescued by the British Navy from Dunkirk, but only with the loss of all their cannon, vehicles, and modern equipment. This loss inevitably took some weeks to repair ...

... forces of infantry and artillery protected the ports, but the evacuation of the greater part of the Expeditionary Force from Dunkirk, Brest and Cherbourg was a success on which the Germans had not reckoned and the situation is very different now that Britain ...