First Blood | April - June 1940) World War II

When Winston Churchill became Prime Minister of the wartime coalition government in May 1940 he pledged his “blood, toil, tears and sweat“ and within days of his appointment he was called upon to honor his promise. As the Low Countries fell to Adolf Hitler, and France was poised to follow suit, rescuing thousands of Allied servicemen from the beaches of Dunkirk was Churchill’s top priority.