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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 ...

Churchill said that the evacuation from Dunkirk was a heroic accomplishment, but that Britain must not think of it as a victory. “Wars are not won by evacuations,” he said. “But there was a ...

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 reels of ...

The wreckage of one the "little ships" that took part in the evacuation of troops from Dunkirk during World War Two has been removed from a river. The Compass Rose was one of about 850 boats that ...

the Dunkirk evacuation. The William Wood Dunkirk Watch is a bronze nautical timepiece featuring a Swiss movement that the British watchmaker has created in honour of the Massey Shaw, a London Fire ...

Historic boat used in Dunkirk evacuation destroyed in devastating Thames boatyard fire ...

‘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 ...

There they delivered a message from the German garrison commander. He wanted a truce to permit evacuation of Dunkirk’s 20,000 civilians before the final battle, in which the city was certain to ...

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 ...

Originally broadcast on 31 May 1940. BBC Archive 1940: News - Dunkirk Evacuation. Video, 00:04:231940: News - Dunkirk Evacuation Up Next. 1978: Timing is everything. Video, 00:00:261978 ...