Artist: Gerry Wood (biography)
Medium: Gouache on Board
Size: 14" x 19" (360mm x 490mm)
Date: 1974

This is the unique original Gouache painting by Gerry Wood.

This picture shows small craft laden with French and British troops, and a paddle steamer towing some of the small boats used to carry the men from the beaches to waiting vessels.

The circular inset shows Marshal Foch with French and British delegates at the railway coach where the Allied armistice with a beaten Germany was signed in 1918.

Below, Hitler and his staff at the same spot in 1940 when it was the turn of France to sue for peace.

This is the original artwork for illustration on p21 of Look and Learn issue no 651 (6 July 1974).