Veterans of World War II describe their experiences of the retreat to Dunkirk in 1940 and the evacuation On 10 May the German Army invaded Holland and Belgium The Blitzkrieg had begun an entirely ...

Movies: Dunkirk, Bombers and the Bombed, Evacuees, Secret Army, D-Day In June 1940, the British Expeditionary Force and the remnants of the French army were trapped in a pocket around the port of ...

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 ...

Powerful myths and misconceptions have shaped our understanding of the moment which changed the course of WW2 - the evacuation at Dunkirk in 1940. But what really happened at Dunkirk and in the ...

Now, 77 years later, director Christopher Nolan’s new movie Dunkirk is telling their harrowing ... “It was a very good, the whole thing was really realistic, makes you think you’re back ...

“If I had been an Italian, I am sure I should have been whole-heartedly ... few people watching these movie portrayals understand what was at stake during the Dunkirk crisis.