Two of the many small boats which helped to bring the Allied troops in the emergency evacuation across the English Channel from Dunkirk, France, are shown on June 4, 1940 in World War II. A dense ...

For Britons, Dunkirk is one of the proudest moments of World War II. The evacuation of 338,226 troops and other personnel from the beaches of northern France – which took place between May 26 and June ...

Christopher Nolan's World War Two thriller Dunkirk hits the screens in the US and the UK this month, dramatising the daring rescue of 300,000 Allied troops from the approaching German army. But as ...

Ossie's friend Cyril Wroe met him because he had been in the dramatic society before the war They had... Dons Dunkirk: 32nd Field Regiment R.A. A destroyer was loading men at the end of the Mole, ...

Nine months after World War II began, the German Nazi war machine drove French, British, and Belgian troops west across France into a town on the English Channel’s coast, called Dunkirk. By late May ...

A former Royal Navy sailor who was one of the last surviving veterans of the Dunkirk evacuation 85 years ago has died aged 105. Duncan McInnes was on board HMS Saladin, which rescued hundreds of ...

Dunkirk, the newest epic from Christopher Nolan, retells one of the iconic legends of the Second World War. From May 27 until June 4, 1940, more than 338,000 Allied troops who'd been encircled by the ...

Dunkirk is an awesome movie experience, one that ignores all the rules of historical drama to focus on the perspectives of the men who lived through the British and French evacuations from Dunkirk ...

THE Dunkirk spirit describes the bravery shown during one of the most significant operations of the Second World War. But today, this phrase is taking on a new meaning. On the seafront sits a war ...

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THE Dunkirk spirit describes the bravery shown during one of the most significant operations of the Second World War. But today, this phrase is taking on a new ...