These photographs are part of a chilling collection of WWII photographs taken by a German soldier in the aftermath of Dunkirk. Yesterday, on Remembrance Day, they were a fitting reminder of the fields ...

After a successful emergency sealift from a beachhead at Dunkirk, these British and French soldiers arrive safely at an unknown British port, in June 1940. (Associated Press) One of the Aug. 12 Free ...

Editor’s note: The movie “Dunkirk” will open July 21. For the location, director Christopher Nolan chose the original French beach where the British army had faced annihilation in the early part of ...

1. This collection of firsthand accounts by veterans of the 1939-40 Blitzkrieg campaigns delivers insights from two generations. Here are Wehrmacht soldiers conscripted by Hitler’s Third Reich, ...

This story was submitted to the site by Steven Greaves on behalf of Burt Price. When Dunkirk was cut off, the Black Watch took over the Royal Marine Commandos who had been in position around Dunkirk.

Here’s What You Need to Know: Germany dithered, and the British got away. War movies tend to depict the battles a nation wins—not the ones it loses. So with a blockbuster Hollywood movie on Dunkirk ...

Dunkirk from the Other Side of the Hill, Much has been written about the epic evacuation of some 330,000 British and French troops from Dunkirk after the collapse of Allied fortunes in northern France ...

A quarter-million troops of the British Expeditionary Force, together with about 140,000 French and Belgian soldiers, were safely evacuated from the beaches of Dunkirk, France between May 26 and June ...

A DUNKIRK hero tells for the first time on today’s 80th anniversary of the evacuation’s start how he shot down three German planes. Machine-gunner Ben Wallsworth, 100, took out the first, a Heinkel ...

Christopher Nolan’s film Dunkirk inspired new attention to the famous evacuation by sea, in 1940, of four hundred thousand British troops under harrowing air attack. Had that evacuation failed, the ...

This story was submitted to the site by Steven Greaves on behalf of Burt Price. When Dunkirk was cut off, the Black Watch took over the Royal Marine Commandos who had been in position around Dunkirk.