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Mastermind of Dunkirk

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In 1940 more than 300,000 Allied soldiers were trapped on the French coastline. Bertram Ramsay got them out. At 7:30 a.m. on May 15, 1940, British prime minister Winston Churchill was awakened by an urgent telephone call from French premier Paul Reynaud. “We are beaten,” the distraught Reynaud blurted out in English. “We have lost …

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