My father Hubert John (Bert)Eckersley from Bolton in Lancashire joined the 4th/7th Royal Dragoon Guards just 6 days after his 18th birthday on March 11th 1938. Following the declaration of War in ...

He did his disciplinary course in Chatham Barracks, then transferred up to the Royal Naval Hospital in Gillingham where he learned the craft of nursing until the outbreak of war. He was still a ...

The Forgotten Muslim Soldiers of the Battle of Dunkirk' sheds light on Force K6, a group of Indian Muslim soldiers from present-day Pakistan who played a crucial role in the British army's mule ...

Experience Dunkirk in virtual reality with the LIFE ... 330,000 Allied soldiers made for one of the greatest tales of World War II — and the veterans say Nolan stayed true to the story with ...

The last 20 years have brought no shortage of films about the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan (for obvious reasons), but the best war movies of the 21st century show that World War II continues ...

While those conflicts have dominated the genre lately, everything from the Civil War to the Battle of Red Cliffs has found ...

Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk is a very solid film, but the classic French film that helped inspire his approach to the story ...

Relive the bravery of the Dunkirk veterans in defenseless boats ... the inferno through their uplifting stories of heroism in a battle that changed the course of WWII.

Llanthony, a recently restored 77-foot 1934 Camper & Nicholsons motor yacht, will journey to Dunkirk this May to commemorate the 85th anniversary of ...