"In early May 1940, during the first year of World War Two, the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) was positioned alongside French forces on the Belgian border. Everyone expected Germany to invade France from the east, but within six weeks Hitler's blitzkrieg ('lightning war') tactics had carried his forces through Holland and Belgium, and the invasion came instead from the north." Die Website ist Teil des multimedialen Angebots der BBC zum Thema Zweiter Weltkrieg. Acht Überlebende berichten von der Evakuation Dunkirks (Dunkirchen) vom 26. Mai bis 4. Juni 1940.