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Themes • Key questions in modern world history • Was the Dunkirk evacuation a triumph or a disaster? • The Sources

The Sources

Source no	Document reference	Date	Caption
1	➜ CHAR 20/27/76-78	20 Dec 1940	A letter from Anthony Eden, Secretary of State for War, to Winston Churchill
2	➜ CHAR 20/27/82-84	1 Jan 1941	An extract from a letter from David Margesson, Secretary of State for War, to John Masefield, Poet Laureate
3	➜ CHAR 20/14, images 10 and 11	5 June 1940	A telegram from Winston Churchill to the Prime Minister of Canada
4	➜ CHAR 23/2/images 83-90	31 May 1940	Extracts from the records of the Supreme War Council meeting. Among those present were British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and the French Prime Minister Paul Reynaud
5	➜ CHUR 4/151/images 3-4, 7, 10, 12, 13	Jan 1947 – Oct 1948	Extracts from a draft of Chapter 5 of Churchill’s history, The Second World War, Volume 2: Their Finest Hour