More than 70 Dunkirk Little Ships will be sailing into Ramsgate’s Royal Harbour this month to commemorate the 85th ...

It’s a long way to Dunkirk from Royal Clarence Yard, via Ramsgate and Calais with the Little Ships, but that is what HMS Motor Lighter X-209 did and was the only one from the Gosport Yard to do ...

The Daily Express marked the miracle of Dunkirk with the headline on May 31,1940: “Tens of Thousands Safely Home Already… Many more coming.” British soldiers were still being lifted from the ...

Twenty Five Days: The Rescue of the BEF, Dunkirk 10 May - 3rd June 1940 by John Masefield (Pen & Sword Books, 2004) The Little Ships of Dunkirk by Christian Brann (Collectors Books, 1989 ...

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 ...