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 ...

The grave of a Korean war soldier from County Durham has been identified in South Korea more than 70 years after his death. ...

Launched in May, the Dunkirk watch delivers today, in time for Veterans Day in the US and Remembrance Day in the UK.

From Lord Patrick, who was shot down over German lines and captured in France in 1918, to Laura Kuenssberg’s grandfather, ...

There’s a moment in The Soldiers That Saved Britain (streaming on Channel4.com) that feels jarringly out of place in an ...

The French army continued to fight until the final surrender, something which is not often understood. In 1935, the French ...

The villagers of Mansfield Woodhouse in Nottinghamshire, led by local historian Barbara Berry, have dug deep into the ...

What you might not be aware of is that there were a fair few who were captured during the action and held as prisoners of war ...

Following the German advance, the BEF itself found in retreat, leading to a mass evacuation of hundreds of thousands of troops from the beaches around Dunkirk, and later from Normandy. Little is ...

Dermot O'Leary, ex-Royal Marine Arthur Williams, and historian Lucy Betteridge-Dyson explore key 48-hour periods in some of Britain's most important military conflicts, starting with Dunkirk and the ...

Ukraine has begun firing on North Korean troops inside Russia for the first time since they were deployed in the conflict, a Kyiv official said. They added that Pyongyang's units were struck in ...