SS Massacre on the Road to Dunkirk: Wormhout and Esquelbecq 29 May 1940

by Nigel Cave and Leslie Aitken

The two most notorious massacres of British troops by the SS, at Le Paradis and at Wormhout, in northern France, took place within a day and forty kilometers of each other in May 1940.

At Wormhout the main victims of the carnage were members of the 2nd Royal Warwickshire Regiment; up to eighty men were butchered in an old cowshed by members of II Battalion Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler. The murdered men were part of the outer perimeter of the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1526771381
• ISBN13: 9781526771384
• Release Date: April 2026
• Publisher: Pen & Sword Military
• Length: 192 Pages