The Only Thing that Stopped German From Winning WW2 in a Day?

It was all over for the Allies. By May 20, 1940, German Panzer divisions had reached Abbeville at the mouth of the Somme River, splitting the Allied armies into two and forcing the troops on the north into an ever-shrinking pocket near the port city of Dunkirk. With no way to reach central France, and no naval force capable of evacuating them on such short notice, the British Expeditionary Force and uncountable French forces faced annihilation.

Three days later, General Alan Brooke wrote in despair: (QUOTE) “Nothing but a miracle can save the BEF now.”

Winston Churchill was haunted by the specter of the Dunkirk disaster becoming Britain’s most catastrophic military failure only weeks into his tenure as Prime Minister. The last flicker of hope lay in Operation Dynamo, an audacious gambit to evacuate nearly 400,000 men from the war-torn beaches using every ship within reach.

But not even the most optimistic Allied commander believed it could be done before German tanks overwhelmed the area. However, fate had one final card to play.

A courageous cadre of French soldiers, led by an indomitable man, would make a valiant stand in the town of Lille, a mere 40 miles from Dunkirk, to force a delay. Outnumbered, outgunned, and on the brink of exhaustion, these tenacious warriors would become the last hope of the Allied forces…

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