But in the spring of 1940, the Battle of Dunkirk turned out to be one of the ... squadrons racked the beach with machine gun fire.” Wright worked as a gunner during the battle and he recalled ...

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 ...