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The evacuation efforts took place between 26 May and [[4 June]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Co-Owner of a Lonely Heart (TV story)|Co-Owner of a Lonely Heart]]'') 850 civilian ships set off from the south coast of England towards Dunkirk. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Nemonite Invasion (audio story)|The Nemonite Invasion]]'') The First Doctor witnessed the events. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Byzantium! (novel)|Byzantium!]]'') | The evacuation efforts took place between 26 May and [[4 June]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Co-Owner of a Lonely Heart (TV story)|Co-Owner of a Lonely Heart]]'') 850 civilian ships set off from the south coast of England towards Dunkirk. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Nemonite Invasion (audio story)|The Nemonite Invasion]]'') The First Doctor witnessed the events. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Byzantium! (novel)|Byzantium!]]'') | ||
The trapped soldiers organised themselves in long lines stretching towards the sea under constant threat from [[Stuka]] dive-bombers. Yet the German ground forces still held back. The Royal Navy, aided by the fleet of "little ships", ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Timewyrm: Exodus (novel)|Timewyrm: Exodus]]'') evacuated 338,000 men across the [[English Channel]] back to Britain, 100,000 of which came straight from the [[beach]]es, although the evacuation generated some controversy. ([[TV]]: ''[[Co-Owner of a Lonely Heart (TV story)|Co-Owner of a Lonely Heart]]'') [[Corporal]] [[Gibbs (The Forsaken)|Gibbs]], who was among those successfully evacuated along with [[Captain]] [[Clive Freeman]], considered Dunkirk "a mess". ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Forsaken (audio story)|The Forsaken]]'') | The trapped soldiers organised themselves in long lines stretching towards the sea under constant threat from [[Stuka]] dive-bombers. Yet the German ground forces still held back. The Royal Navy, aided by the fleet of "little ships", ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Timewyrm: Exodus (novel)|Timewyrm: Exodus]]'') evacuated 338,000 men across the [[English Channel]] back to Britain, 100,000 of which came straight from the [[beach]]es, although the evacuation generated some controversy. ([[TV]]: ''[[Co-Owner of a Lonely Heart (TV story)|Co-Owner of a Lonely Heart]]'') [[Corporal]] [[Gibbs (The Forsaken)|Gibbs]], who was among those successfully evacuated along with [[Captain]] [[Clive Freeman]], considered Dunkirk "a mess". ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Forsaken (audio story)|The Forsaken]]'') Churchill wrote that Dunkirk gave Britain "a bloody [[nose]]", from which the nation was still reeling a year later. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Human Conflict (audio story)|Human Conflict]]'') | ||
Yet for all the controversy, the evacuation was to prove a decisive moment in the war. Kriegslieter had identified the halt at Dunkirk as a fatal mistake in Germany's war effort that required correction but after the events at Drachensberg, the Black Coven were no longer able to intervene. Rommel, in his secret diary, was very critical of Hitler's nervousness despite his success and called the order to halt "utter madness". Churchill reminded the British that "wars are not won by evacuations". Britain's position was still very precarious, but the British Army, the forces necessary to face the troubles ahead, had been safely brought back home. People in Britain viewed the deliverance from Dunkirk as a [[miracle]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Timewyrm: Exodus (novel)|Timewyrm: Exodus]]'') | Yet for all the controversy, the evacuation was to prove a decisive moment in the war. Kriegslieter had identified the halt at Dunkirk as a fatal mistake in Germany's war effort that required correction but after the events at Drachensberg, the Black Coven were no longer able to intervene. Rommel, in his secret diary, was very critical of Hitler's nervousness despite his success and called the order to halt "utter madness". Churchill reminded the British that "wars are not won by evacuations". Britain's position was still very precarious, but the British Army, the forces necessary to face the troubles ahead, had been safely brought back home. People in Britain viewed the deliverance from Dunkirk as a [[miracle]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Timewyrm: Exodus (novel)|Timewyrm: Exodus]]'') | ||
