May, 1940 and things looked bad for Britain. Very bad indeed. The bulk of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF), combined with assorted allied units, was being driven backwards into an ever shrinking pocket of land around the French coastal town of Dunkerque (Dunkirk). The German Army had swept through France smashing through all resistance placed before it with astonishing speed. The fall of France was inevitable and the destruction of the remaining elements of Britain’s Army seemed equally…