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Unique and historically significant films shot 75 years ago, during the evacuation of Allied forces from Dunkirk in 1940, have been discovered at The University of Manchester Library. The videos can ...

Unique and historically significant films shot 75 years ago, during the evacuation of Allied forces from Dunkirk in 1940, have been discovered at The University of Manchester Library. The reels of ...

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 ...

The wreckage of one the "little ships" that took part in the evacuation of troops from Dunkirk during World War Two has been removed from a river. The Compass Rose was one of about 850 boats that ...

Historic boat used in Dunkirk evacuation destroyed in devastating Thames boatyard fire ...

"And it's an effective film for me because my parents were here. "They lived in Dunkirk at the time of the evacuation and then lived under Nazi occupation. "My parents had to learn German.

Plans for a 'Dunkirk-style' evacuation of up to 16,000 UK nationals from Lebanon are being stepped up. The evacuation, codenamed Operation Meteoric, would be led by the Royal Navy and the Royal ...

Churchill said that the evacuation from Dunkirk was a heroic accomplishment, but that Britain must not think of it as a victory. “Wars are not won by evacuations,” he said. “But there was a ...

Following the invasion of France in May 1940, the British Expeditionary Force and parts of the French Army had retreated to Dunkirk and awaited evacuation, while German forces had been closing in ...

Four hundred thousand British and French soldiers are holed up in the French port town of Dunkirk. The only way ... part of the evacuation fleet.