In 1940 he was with thousands of other soldiers on the beaches at Dunkirk waiting to be evacuated. Whilst they waited for the boats the soldiers were shot at and bombed, and the Germans dropped ...

Details of the Compass Rose's role in the evacuation of more than 336,000 British and French soldiers who were trapped on the beaches at Dunkirk appears to have been lost, the agency said.

The film Dunkirk tells the story of British and Allied troops trapped on the beach surrounded by enemy forces in 1940 Christopher Nolan's World War Two thriller Dunkirk hits the screens in the US ...

Witness the poignant landscapes of Dunkirk from above with this drone footage, capturing the historic beaches and harbor where the dramatic World War II evacuation unfolded. Judge rules Arkansas ...

Demoralised, starving and exhausted, the men waiting on the beaches of Dunkirk endured days of fierce bombardment, while many of the boats that came to their rescue were sunk, with heavy loss of life.

Meanwhile, British civilians are being dragged into the war with Operation Dynamo, the scheme to get the French and British forces back from the Dunkirk beaches. Some come forward to help ...