Following Hitler's invasion of Poland on September 6th, 1939, the official start of World War Two, an eerie eight-month period of little to no fighting ensued. But whispers of the Nazi invasion of other countries was too critical to ignore. As such, Allied British, French and Belgian troops rushed to defend Western Europe from the Nazi menace and became stranded on the beaches of Northwest France as a result. The ensuing rescue operation, which took place over nine days in the late spring of 1940, was later dubbed "a miracle of deliverance" by none other than Prime Minister Winston Churchill. Tune in to the 'History Loves Company' podcast this week to learn all about the Dunkirk Evacuation and what it meant to the greater conflict.