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 ...

Christopher Nolan is known for reimagining (and redefining) genres, and he is now taking on Greek mythology. After ...

Veterans of World War II describe their experiences of the retreat to Dunkirk in 1940 and the evacuation On 10 May the German Army invaded Holland and Belgium The Blitzkrieg had begun an entirely ...

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 ...

Rylance may not be a household name but has appeared in a wide variety of films, Bones and All, Dunkirk, Bridge of Spies ... Like the original cast, the actors will probably need to be around ...

Powerful myths and misconceptions have shaped our understanding of the moment which changed the course of WW2 - the evacuation at Dunkirk in 1940. But what really happened at Dunkirk and in the ...

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 ...