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

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

Atonement, a romantic war film starring Keira Knightley and James McAvoy, hinges on the events of a fateful summer's day amid ...

During the dramatic Dunkirk evacuation, the skies became a deadly battleground between Britain’s agile Spitfires and ...

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 ...

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

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

As Britain marks the 85th anniversary of Dunkirk, one Kent town is calling for recognition of the role it played in rescuing ...

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

Nine months after World War II began, the German Nazi war machine drove French, British, and Belgian troops west across France into a town on the English Channel’s coast, called Dunkirk. By late ...