James Holland
@WW2Headquarters·114K subscribers·233 videos
What if Dunkirk had failed?
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August 11, 2026
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1:12Now PlayingOn Sunday 26th May 1940 — the National Day of Prayer — the mood in Britain was bleak. The expectation was that there were maybe 24 to 36 hours to pull off the evacuation, and that getting 40,000 men home would count as a success.
Instead, over 300,000 came back.
Had it gone the other way, 300,000 BEF soldiers in the bag would have handed Hitler an enormous political weapon — and left the new Churchill government facing peace negotiations from an impossible position. Wars aren't won with evacuations, but they can certainly be lost without them.
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