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The lead up to the Dunkirk evacuation
In the month after the Suez crisis and the Hungarian revolution, Lt Gen Sir Brian Horrocks, who commanded a battalion at Dunkirk, expertly illustrates how the German forces encircled the British troops at Dunkirk.