She would wait a year before learning ... Codenamed Operation Dynamo, the evacuation of Dunkirk took place between 26 May and 4 June 1940. A flotilla of 900 naval and civilian craft was sent ...

It was a year before she was told that he was believed ... Codenamed Operation Dynamo, the evacuation of Dunkirk took place between 26 May and 4 June 1940. A flotilla of 900 naval and civilian ...

Dunkirk evacuation map The German High Command on the 27th May announced ... by their incredibly swift advances and the relatively quick defeat of those who stood before. The advancing German Army had ...

A LIFEBOAT which once served Frinton and Walton and took part in Dunkirk is now being restored in a museum in Chile and historians are looking ...

Aside from already developing Gladiator III as Gladiator II is about to hit cinemas, the Hollywood director continues to bring historical epics like Napoleon to the big screen. The latest from The ...

With an over-sized coat around his shoulders and his meagre luggage tied to together with string, he was just one among ...

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

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

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 ...

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 the ...

The most vital component of our Day of Remembrance is not the string of victories but our collective belief in the right of a ...