One story about Dunkirk that’s rarely told is that of the Siege of Lille, a battle taking place in tandem with the evacuations that saw some 40,000 French troops hold off wave after wave of advancing elite Wehrmacht soldiers. Without the efforts of these brave French soldiers, not as many soldiers would have been saved from Dunkirk.from The Fact Site https://ift.tt/2RmfAI8
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