Bray Dunes, East of Dunkirk, 1940 (2 of 2)
British troops line up ready to be evacuated from Bray Dunes, east of Dunkirk, during Operation Dynamo. Two of the small boats used to ferry the troops out to the larger ships used for the cross-channel journey can be seen in this picture.
The War at Sea, 1939-1945, Volume I: The Defensive, S. W. Roskill. This first volume in the British official history of the war at sea covers the period from the outbreak of the war through to the first British disasters in the Pacific in December 1941. Amongst other topics it covers the Norwegian campaign, the evacuation from Dunkirk and the first two years of the Battle of the Atlantic. The text is meticulously researched, and is rooted in a detailed study of wartime records, both British and German. [
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How to cite this article:
Rickard, J (19 February 2008), Bray Dunes, East of Dunkirk, 1940, http://www.historyofwar.org/Pictures/pictures_dunkirk_bray_dunes2
