observing troops from the BEF as they advanced towards Belgium and then retreated to Dunkirk, staying with them until the final stage of evacuation. Soon after this, he joined the Royal Naval ...

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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 videos can ...

Mark Andrews looks back through the decades to mark the Express & Star's 150th anniversary. Today we look at the 1940s.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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‘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 ...

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 ...

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 ...