Joined for June’s Book Club by writer, journalist, Sylvia Kent and David Worsfold, Author, Journalist, Trainer and Presenter.
You can meet David and Sylvia at the BAYTREE CENTRE Saturday 22nd June between 11am – 3pm as part of BRENTWOOD ART TRAIL. Books galore!
David was here to talk about his book OPERATION AERIAL: Churchill’s Second Miracle of Deliverance – The Untold Story of the Evacuations from France in June 1940.
SATURDAY EVENT – THE BAYTREE CENTRE 22.06.24 BRENTWOOD ART SHOWCASE 11am – 3pm
INTERVIEW DAVID WORSFOLD
INTERVIEW SYLVIA KENT (60 SECOND HISTORY – FRANCES CLAMP)
ABOUT THE BOOK – OPERATION AERIAL: Churchill’s Second Miracle of Deliverance
Dunkirk fell to the advancing German forces on 4 June 1940 but tens of thousands of troops and British civilians were still in France. By the end of June a further 220,000 had been brought back to England.
The story of that second miracle has never been fully told.
There are military history books dealing with the fate of the British Expeditionary Force in France after Dunkirk, especially the encirclement and capture of the Highland Division at Saint Valery-en-Caux. This was only part of the story, however.
Dunkirk was part of Operation Dynamo. As the curtain came down on that Churchill actually ordered 11,000 more troops to France to support a French plan to defend the Breton peninsula. No sooner had they arrived on French soil than that plan evaporated and Operation Cycle was launched to bring them home.
David Worsfold | Journalist • Author • Trainer • Presenter (worsfoldmedia.co.uk)
SYLVIA KENT SYLVIA KENT’S READING & WRITING FORUM
