BBC returns to the beaches to film story of Dunkirk spirit
02 Sep 2003 | by Gordon MacMillan,
of retreating British troops from the beaches of Dunkirk in the summer of 1940....from the British Expeditionary Force besieged on the beaches at Dunkirk early in the Second World War ... in behind them. The BEF, under fire from German aircraft, was plucked from the beaches by Royal ... ' plays Harold Alexander, the last officer to be evacuated from the beach. Dunkirk is directed by first ...



