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85 Years On: Operation Dynamo and the Battle of Dunkirk

85 Years On: Operation Dynamo and the Battle of Dunkirk

Update: 2025-05-25
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In this episode of Talking History, we're debating one of the most dramatic episodes of the Second World War: Operation Dynamo, the incredible evacuation of Allied forces from Dunkirk in May 1940.

Featuring: Prof Eunan O’Halpin, Emeritus Professor of Contemporary Irish History, Trinity College Dublin; Dr David Jordan, Co-Director of the Freeman Air and Space Institute and Senior Lecturer in Defence Studies at King’s College London; and Prof Jonathan Fennell, Professor of the History of War and Society at KCL, and president of the Second World War Research Group.

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85 Years On: Operation Dynamo and the Battle of Dunkirk

85 Years On: Operation Dynamo and the Battle of Dunkirk