You know the Dunkirk story. You've seen the Christopher Nolan movie. But you still can't help but wonder: how could such a ...

Royal Navy veteran and Poole Maritime Trust trustee, Michael ‘Jack’ Hawkins BEM, said: "Poole and the people of Poole played a significant role in the evacuation of France beginning on 26 May 1940 and ...

Real-life veterans of the battle depicted in Christopher Nolan new movie Dunkirk tell their harrowing stories of survival Ale Russian is a contributing writer at PEOPLE. She has been working at ...

Listen to eight survivors of the Dunkirk evacuation recount their stories in this audio gallery. In early May 1940, during the first year of World War Two, the British Expeditionary Force (BEF ...

Churchill was keen to temper the nation-wide euphoria that so many troops had escaped – the so-called 'miracle of Dunkirk'. Churchill cautioned that: 'We must be very careful not to assign to ...

1940 and in particular The Miracle of Dunkirk. "It is worth remembering on this 85th anniversary that without this epic event there would have been no Victory in Europe 80 years ago." The ...