The World at War - Mini English Subtitles

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(narrator) May 26, 1940.

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Along roads lined with their
smashed and abandoned equipment,

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British and French armies retreat to the
only Channel port still open to them:

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Dunkirk.

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Ten miles away, along the Channel coast,

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German armour awaits
Hitler's orders to attack.

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On the Dunkirk beaches,

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nearly half a million men -
British and French -

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face surrender, or the slim chance
of rescue by ships from England.