Listen to eight survivors of the Dunkirk evacuation recount their stories in this audio gallery. In early May 1940, during the first year of World War Two, the British Expeditionary Force (BEF ...

Then he was told to 'get back to Dunkirk', and as he headed north he became embroiled in fierce local fighting, saw refugees machine-gunned as they fled to escape danger, and thought the world had ...