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Sinclair McKay talks to Chris Hunter

Dunkirk: From Disaster to Deliverance – Testimonies of the Last Survivors

Winter Weekend 2014, Sunday 30 November 2014

On 4 June 1940, over 338,000 British, French and Belgian troops were evacuated from the beaches and harbour at Dunkirk. Drawing on new interviews with Dunkirk veterans, letters and recollections from Wrens, civilian sailors and new recruits, the bestselling author of The Secret Life of Bletchley Park details the wider story around this ‘absurd English epic’.