Ron and his comrades were among the first British soldiers to be captured by the Nazis during the fighting around Dunkirk. The eldest of four children, Ron was starting a career as a baker when he ...

Trapped on a French beach as German warplanes attacked, hundreds of thousands of British and Allied troops thought they were doomed. Many were. But in the spring of 1940, the Battle of Dunkirk ...

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 ...

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Some of my mates didn't. I continued my seven miles up to Dunkirk. NARRATOR:'Jim was one of over 330,000 British and French troops who made it to England. NARRATOR:'The miraculous evacuation from ...

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 ...

Telling the story of the evacuation at Dunkirk, the film follows soldiers on the ground, two pilots surveying the scene from above, and a group of civilians steering their boats across the channel ...