Evacuation began on the 29th of May by the Royal Navy and civilian fishing and lifeboats pressed into service known as ...

Volunteers are racing to secure funds to restore a World War Two tug used at Dunkirk back to its former glory. The Challenge ...

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 ...

In June 1940, in the days after the successful mass evacuation at Dunkirk, more than 10,000 men fought a desperate last stand in a small French seaside town. Among them was teenage soldier Donald ...

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 ...

London: Pen & Sword Frontline / Philadelphia: Casemate, 2014. Pp. xx, 252. Illus., maps, gloss., appends., notes, biblio., index. . $39.95. ISBN: 1848327331. Although ...

On 4 June 1940, as the Dunkirk evacuations drew to a close, Winston Churchill delivered a thrilling speech to the House of Commons. He looked back at the miraculous rescue of the British ...