Shattered by bomb impacts, the 100-meter-long British destroyer "Keith" has been lying at the bottom of the Dunkirk channel since its sinking in 1940. It went down during Operation Dynamo, when ...

Wars are not won by evacuation, but George Washington's decision to evacuate Long Island in August 1776 ultimately saved the the Continental Army.

The looming disaster at Dunkirk threatened to be the most disgraceful military debacle in modern British history. In sheer desperation, Churchill and his commanders hatched Operation Dynamo, a ...

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 ...

Editor’s note: This story was originally published on June 4, 2024. A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. In 1940, as casualties mounted across Europe, the ...

Love it or loathe it, the five-minute tracking shot on Dunkirk beach is the pivotal scene in Joe Wright‘s “Atonement.” The evacuation of Dunkirk, a moral victory snatched from the jaws of a ...