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After Dunkirk: Britain’s Forgotten Fight For France (1940)
The Redcoat History Podcast
1 hour 25 minutes
1 month ago
After Dunkirk: Britain’s Forgotten Fight For France (1940)
Today we have something fascinating - After Dunkirk, job done… right? Not quite.
While Britain cheers the “miracle,” more than a hundred thousand of our lads are still in France — fighting, improvising, and trying not to be rolled up by Rommel. The 51st Highland Division digs in at St Valery. Alanbrooke rows with Churchill down a crackly phone line, the RAF keeps flying and the Navy pulls off two more evacuations most people have never heard of.
Today we’re unpacking the 18 desperate days after Dunkirk — Operation Cycle, Operation Aerial, the fate of the 51st, de Gaulle’s decision to fight on, and the tragedy of the Lancastria.
Joining the show is historian Paul Fantom, author of A Forgotten Campaign: The British Armed Forces in France, 1940 — From Dunkirk to the Armistice.
https://www.helion.co.uk/military-history-books/a-forgotten-campaign-the-british-armed-forces-in-france-1940-from-dunkirk-to-the-armistice.php
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The Redcoat History Podcast
The podcast for military history geeks and people with a passion for good stories