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Unique and historically significant films shot 75 years ago, during the evacuation of Allied forces from Dunkirk in 1940, have been discovered at The University of Manchester Library. The videos can ...

The wreckage of one the "little ships" that took part in the evacuation of troops from Dunkirk during World War Two has been removed from a river. The Compass Rose was one of about 850 boats that ...

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 ...

Plans for a 'Dunkirk-style' evacuation of up to 16,000 UK nationals from Lebanon are being stepped up. The evacuation, codenamed Operation Meteoric, would be led by the Royal Navy and the Royal ...

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”.

A museum in honour of Admiral Ramsay has been approved in the Borders Plans have been approved for a museum at the family home of the man who masterminded the evacuation of Dunkirk. Operation ...

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

during the famous evacuation of Dunkirk. In the spring of 1940, things weren’t going so well for the Allied forces during the second world war. Hundreds of thousands of British, French and ...

Following the invasion of France in May 1940, the British Expeditionary Force and parts of the French Army had retreated to Dunkirk and awaited evacuation, while German forces had been closing in ...