[Guenevere]

I just finished After Dunkirk by Lee Jackson
It is a smashingly good historical novel.......couldn’t put it down.

I didn’t know thousands of British and French troops used as rear guard didn’t get rescued even though tens of thousands did

[KamperKen]

"I didn’t know thousands of British and French troops used as rear guard didn’t get rescued even though tens of thousands did"

I became aware of the stranded post-Dunkirk British soldiers when I read "Paris Underground" by Etta Shiber, an American widow whos was sharing an apartment with her British girlfriend Kitty when France fell and Paris was Nazi occupied.

The author ended up assisting her friend in smuggling stranded British soldiers into the unoccupied southern zone of France. They were ultimately caught and Etta ended up in prison and her friend deported to and imprisoned in Germany.

Ms. Shiber was ultimately repatriated to the United States in a prisoner exchange for a female German spy. The book was published in 1943 prior to the end of the war.