Northerner reacts to The world at war #4

May 26, 1940.

Along roads lined with their
smashed and abandoned equipment,

British and French armies retreat to the
only Channel port still open to them:

Dunkirk.

Ten miles away, along the Channel coast,

German armour awaits
Hitler's orders to attack.

On the Dunkirk beaches,

nearly half a million men -
British and French -

face surrender, or the slim chance
of rescue by ships from England.