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 ...

Over the course of a few days, almost 340,000 British and French troops were famously evacuated from the beach at Dunkirk. The 51st, meanwhile, was fighting a losing battle. "We knew nothing about ...

The troops were vital to the British war effort and Winston Churchill ... Later they were evacuating France at Dunkirk when German shells began to fall all around them. Khan reorganised the ...

Veterans of World War II describe their experiences of the retreat to Dunkirk in 1940 and the evacuation ... a terrifying baptism of fire and for the British Army a shattering blow Within three ...

Eight months into World War II, following a series of setbacks, roughly 400,000 British troops find themselves ... gives up and wades into the water. Dunkirk is first and foremost a mood-piece ...

May/June 1940. Four hundred thousand British and French soldiers are holed up in the French port town of Dunkirk. The only way out is via sea, and the Germans have air superiority, bombing the ...

Volunteers are racing to secure funds to restore a World War Two tug used at Dunkirk back to its ... which saw more than 338,000 British and French soldiers evacuated from the French coast to ...

A BOAT owned by an Isle of Wight couple will take part in the 85th anniversary of the Dunkirk evacuation in France. The ...

Hundreds of thousands of British, French and Belgian soldiers were stranded on the beaches of Dunkirk, in northern France, after being pushed back by German forces. And so began Operation Dynamo ...

British Typhoon fighter jets flying from ... the evacuation of hundreds of thousands of Allied soldiers from Dunkirk in 1940 when they were surrounded by German forces. In his most recent ...

A ship berthed in Hartlepool that played a key part in one of the defining moments of the Second World War is hoped to return to the scene of her “finest hour”.