Joe Wright's Atonement, the acclaimed World War 2 film featuring Keira Knightley and James McAvoy, certainly left its mark ...

Prime Minister Winston Churchill’s stirring declaration of "miracle of deliverance" remembered to this day. Read more.

More than 338,000 soldiers of the Allied Forces were evacuated from the beaches of Dunkirk in France on June 4, 1940, making ...

Allied forces retreated from the German advance through north-western Europe, and fell back to the Channel ports of France where they were trapped. Their rescue was codenamed Operation Dynamo and ...

As Britain marks the 85th anniversary of Dunkirk, one Kent town is calling for recognition of the role it played in rescuing ...

More than 338,000 British, French and Belgian soldiers at the mercy of the German invaders were brought to safety in what ...

The 1940 Dunkirk evacuation, which lasted nine days from 27 May to 4 June, was called by then Prime Minister Winston ...

During the Second World War, a fleet of a thousand ships answered the call to bring back British and Allied soldiers, all ...

East Sussex 1, a Maritime Volunteer Service training vessel, led the Dunkirk Little Ships safely home in a historic Channel ...

On May 26, 1940, Operation Dynamo, the evacuation of more than 338,000 Allied troops from Dunkirk, France, began during World War II. In 1864, President Abraham Lincoln signed a measure creating the ...