A BOAT owned by an Isle of Wight couple will take part in the 85th anniversary of the Dunkirk evacuation in France. The ...
The future of HMS Wellington, a historic World War Two warship, has been secured with a £225,000 grant from the National ...
Very soon the British Expeditionary Forces found themselves encircled at Dunkirk. Dunkirk evacuation map The German High Command on the 27th May announced that ‘The British Army is encircled, and our ...
On 29 May 1940, she was deployed to assist in the Dunkirk evacuation. "When the call came she was one of the first there and among the last to leave,” said Graham. Later renamed Coronia ...
The beleaguered politician made the painful admission four days after he resigned in May 1940. He quit after a disastrous ...
By allowing Churchill’s reflections – his triumphs and regrets alike - to take center stage, David Payne delivers a performance that is complex, compelling, and deeply human. CHURCHILL - at The ...
Graziani now ordered a full-scale evacuation of Cyrenaica, with O'Connor in hot pursuit. On 5 February, 13th Corps cut off the Italian retreat into Tripolitania (western Libya); two days later the ...