Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Members of Royal Ulster Rifles waiting on improvised pier of lorries to evacuate Dunkirk during low tide. Two of the many small ...

“Dunkirk” has been the surprise box office hit of the summer. It recounts the tale of how the beaten British army escaped the Germans at the beginning of World War II, from a beach at Dunkirk, in ...

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 ...

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 ...

“Wars are not won by evacuations,” Winston Churchill cautioned. The year was 1940, and all that stood between the Nazis and their drive to European domination was the English Channel. For a few tense ...

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 ...