Publisher's Synopsis
The successful evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force from Belgium and northern France through the port of Dunkirk and across adjacent beaches is rightly regarded as one of the most significant episodes in the nation's long history. This book publishes the now declassified 'Battle Summary No 41,' a document once classified as 'Restricted' and produced in small numbers only for official government purposes. This summary, 'The Evacuation from Dunkirk,' lodged in the archive at Britannia Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, is one of the very few surviving copies in existence and records events in minute detail, being written soon after the evacuation using the words of the naval officers involved. This makes it a unique record and a primary source for the history of Operation 'Dynamo' from mid-May 1940 until its conclusion on 4th June.
