Osprey Publishing, 352pp, £20
‘The noise, my dear, and the !’ This, allegedly, was how an equivocal Guardee recalled Dunkirk. What German troops made of it is harder to gauge because,, while acknowledging that the battle for France took precedence. But the battle-weary Wehrmacht , rightly proud of their historic victory, seem to have been too eager to grab their share of the loot left behind by the BEF to engage in retrospection. Nobody, including Hitler, was aware quite how many British troops would live to fight another day.
