Movies: Dunkirk, Bombers and the Bombed, Evacuees, Secret Army, D-Day In June 1940, the British Expeditionary Force and the remnants of the French army were trapped in a pocket around the port of ...

At just before 7PM on May 26 1940 Prime Minister Winston Churchill authorized Operation Dynamo to commence By the time the operation came to an end on the night of June 4th a total of 338226 ...

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 ...

Listen to eight survivors of the Dunkirk evacuation recount their stories in this audio gallery. In early May 1940, during the first year of World War Two, the British Expeditionary Force (BEF ...

Meanwhile, British civilians are being dragged into the war with Operation Dynamo, the scheme to get the French and British forces back from the Dunkirk beaches. Some come forward to help ...