A defiant Churchill's cabinet implodes over Hitler's peace offer and the British Expeditionary Force retreats to Dunkirk. King George VI calls for a national day of prayer as Britain stands alone ...

the British Expeditionary Force and the remnants of the French army were trapped in a pocket around the port of Dunkirk after a desperate headlong retreat. This is the story of the incredible ...

Since then, Merriam-Webster defines Dunkirk (noun) as a retreat to avoid total defeat or a crisis situation that requires a desperate last effort to forestall certain failures. If you look at the ...