These war movies are a reminder that, while the Oscars sometimes get it wrong, they get it right just as often.

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 ...

Operation Meteoric has been likened to Operation Dynamo, the evacuation of hundreds of thousands of allied soldiers from Dunkirk in 1940 when they were surrounded by German forces. Israel and its ...

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Some of my mates didn't. I continued my seven miles up to Dunkirk. NARRATOR:'Jim was one of over 330,000 British and French troops who made it to England. NARRATOR:'The miraculous evacuation from ...

Hundreds of thousands of British, French and Belgian soldiers were stranded on the beaches of Dunkirk, in northern France, after being pushed back by German forces. And so began Operation Dynamo ...

The ship was vital to the destruction of one enemy U-boat and was involved in Operation Dynamo, the evacuation of troops from Dunkirk. Prof Dominic Tweddle, the chairman of the Wellington Trust ...

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 ...

Charles Herbert Lightoller was born in Chorley, on March 30, 1874, the youngest of seven children to army captain Frederick James Lightoller ...