ABOUT THIS EPISODE
This week marks 81 years since the successful evacuation of British Expeditionary Forces from Belgium and Northern France, through the port of Dunkirk. The Dunkirk evacuation is otherwise known as Operation Dynamo. In this episode Jenna is taken through the context and details of Op Dynamo with Naval Historian, Mike Pearce.
Mike worked for the Ministry of Defence (Navy) for nearly 40 years and was on the staff of the Britannia Royal Naval College, Dartmouth for 12 years. Closely involved with the Royal Navy throughout his career, he held management and planning roles within many different fields of MoD activity and on numerous projects for the Royal Navy in London, Hampshire and at the Naval Base at Devonport in addition to BRNC.
As a naval historian, he has been a trustee of the Britannia Museum since its inception in 2008 and is a series editor for the Britannia Naval Histories of World War II; in 2012 he co-authored, with Dr Richard Porter, the introduction to Fight for the Fjords, and in 2013 wrote the introduction to Between Hostile Shores, Mediterranean Convoy Battles 1941-42, both in the series.
His book on Op Dynamo is available here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Dunkirk-Operation-Dynamo-26th-Gallantry-ebook/dp/B0888T89RY
