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 ...

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

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

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

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

Rearguard is a type of unit formed during operations of tactical withdrawal. In essence, rearguard units are standard ...

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

Rifleman Mark Foster's unmarked grave has been proven at the United Nations Memorial Cemetery in Busan, South Korea, more ...

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 ...

The Le Paradis massacre happened during the Battle of France as the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) was retreating through the Pas-de-Calais region before the Dunkirk evacuation. Soldiers from ...

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 ...