The last surviving Battle of Britain pilot, John "Paddy" Hemingway, has died at the age of 105. Mr Hemingway, who was ...

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 ...

In late May, against the backdrop of the Dunkirk evacuation and the unstoppable ... Photo: Churchill examines a Tommy gun during an inspection of invasion defences near Hartlepool, 31 July 1940.

Regarded as the father of the modern computer, Turing never picked up a gun ... world war. Hundreds of thousands of British, French and Belgian soldiers were stranded on the beaches of Dunkirk ...

Relive the bravery of the Dunkirk veterans in defenseless boats ... the inferno through their uplifting stories of heroism in a battle that changed the course of WWII.