Wynn Wheldon

More stirring stories of little ships

Julia Jones celebrates the sailors involved in Dunkirk, St Nazaire and other heroic operations of the second world war

‘The Little Ships at Dunkirk: June 1940’ by Norman Wilkinson. [Getty Images]

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