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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

May/June 1940. Four hundred thousand British and French soldiers are holed up in the French port town of Dunkirk. The only way out is via sea, and the Germans have air superiority, bombing the ...