Shattered by bomb impacts, the 100-meter-long British destroyer "Keith" has been lying at the bottom of the Dunkirk channel since its sinking in 1940. It went down during Operation Dynamo, when ...

Nine months after World War II began, the German Nazi war machine drove French, British, and Belgian troops west across France into a town on the English Channel’s coast, called Dunkirk. By late May ...

As France fell to the German armies in May 1940, 400,000 Allied troops were trapped on the beaches of Dunkirk. Their annihilation seemed certain—a disaster that could have led to Britain’s surrender.

Here’s What You Need to Remember: There were four hundred thousand British and French troops to evacuate through a moderate-sized port whose docks were being destroyed by bombs and shells. Even under ...

1. This collection of firsthand accounts by veterans of the 1939-40 Blitzkrieg campaigns delivers insights from two generations. Here are Wehrmacht soldiers conscripted by Hitler’s Third Reich, ...

In May 1940, as German forces sealed the Dunkirk pocket, the SS division later known as Das Reich faced one of its earliest and most dangerous tests. French and British counterattacks struck its ...

LAS VEGAS — An impassioned Christopher Nolan introduced intense footage from his World War II epic “Dunkirk,” expressing his goal of taking moviegoers back to the massive 1940 evacuation. “This is a ...

Despite often introspective Americans' thoughts to the contrary, World War II did not begin when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941. Baby boomers, their children and their grandchildren ...

What Christopher Nolan's WWII epic gets right — and what it dramatizes — about the famed British rescue mission. By Michael Waters James D’Arcy (left) and Branagh on the Mole, a type of pier, ...

How courage and ingenuity saved Allied troops during the epic Dunkirk operation in 1940. As France fell to the German armies in May 1940, 400,000 Allied troops were trapped on the beaches of Dunkirk.