More than 338,000 soldiers of the Allied Forces were evacuated from the beaches of Dunkirk in France on June 4, 1940, making ...

Joe Wright's Atonement, the acclaimed World War 2 film featuring Keira Knightley and James McAvoy, certainly left its mark ...

During the Second World War, a fleet of a thousand ships answered the call to bring back British and Allied soldiers, all ...

Allied forces retreated from the German advance through north-western Europe, and fell back to the Channel ports of France where they were trapped. Their rescue was codenamed Operation Dynamo and ...

Very soon the British Expeditionary Forces found themselves encircled at Dunkirk. Dunkirk evacuation map The German High Command on the 27th May announced that ‘The British Army is encircled, and our ...

The year 2020 marked the 80th anniversary of the evacuation of more than 300,000 Allied soldiers from the beaches of Dunkirk, France between May 26th and June 4th 1940, during World War II. British, ...

Prime Minister Winston Churchill’s stirring declaration of "miracle of deliverance" remembered to this day. Read more.

More than 338,000 British, French and Belgian soldiers at the mercy of the German invaders were brought to safety in what ...

The 1940 Dunkirk evacuation, which lasted nine days from 27 May to 4 June, was called by then Prime Minister Winston ...

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Some 66 boats have recreated the heroic Operation Dynamo exodus which saved hundreds of thousands of soldiers' lives 85 years ...