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Alternate History: Might Britain’s Military Have Been Destroyed at Dunkirk?

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Ultimately, the most crucial consequence of surrender at Dunkirk would have been not manpower and morale, but timing. Between June 1940 and the second half of 1941, ...
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Death at Dunkirk: One Battle Almost Cost Britain 200,000 Men

Here’s What You Need To Remember: Despite the pounding the BEF took in France, a handful of divisions conquered Italian East Africa and routed Italy’s North African armies. Churchill even dispatched ...