They will be escorted by a Royal Navy guard of honour. In doing so, they will recreate the journey that saw 338,000 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Christopher Nolan was treating it as yet another challenge, not knowing how it would break and revolutionize creative norms.

Royal Navy veteran and Poole Maritime Trust trustee, Michael ‘Jack’ Hawkins BEM, said: "Poole and the people of Poole played a significant role in the evacuation of France beginning on 26 May 1940 and ...

‘For days past there has been no real news and little possibility of inferring what is really happening,” wrote George Orwell in his diary, on 28 May 1940. “Last night, E[ileen] and I went ...

Grehan, who has written extensively on British military history, and was an editor of The BEF in France 1939-1940: Manning the Front through to the Dunkirk Evacuation (2014), gives us a very detailed ...

A new exhibition is set to shed light on Poole's role in the Dunkirk evacuation. The exhibition, titled 'Poole at Dunkirk 1940', is organised by the Poole Maritime Trust and will be displayed at ...

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 ...