In 1940, British troops were forced to flee from France upon the surrender of the French government. Many of the fighting troops had already been famously evacuated at Dunkirk, however there were thousands still left throughout France--communications officers, mechanics, engineers, supply depot m...
Frank Brogden, an electrician from Bolton who had signed up for the Merchant Navy at the age of thirteen and had looked after the loudspeakers and the sound equipment for the ship’s cinema in peacetime, was on the midnight to 4 a.m. watch. He remembered the sea as being very calm under a full moo...