The ship was vital to the destruction of one enemy U-boat and was involved in Operation Dynamo, the evacuation of troops from Dunkirk. Prof Dominic Tweddle, the chairman of the Wellington Trust ...

Now, 77 years later, director Christopher Nolan’s new movie Dunkirk is telling their harrowing ... on all sides and the shore too shallow for boats to dock, British and French soldiers were ...

Meanwhile the Dunkirk movie portrays Britain as a kind of sepia postcard, in which people manning the flotilla boats stand like model figurines against fragments of Nimrod from Elgar’s Enigma ...

Movies: Dunkirk, Bombers and the Bombed, Evacuees, Secret Army, D-Day In June 1940, the British Expeditionary Force and the remnants of the French army were trapped in a pocket around the port of ...

Demoralised, starving and exhausted, the men waiting on the beaches of Dunkirk endured days of fierce bombardment, while many of the boats that came to their rescue were sunk, with heavy loss of life.

French authorities said the boat initially set off close to the port of Dunkirk at 11:30pm on Wednesday, with around 40 people on board. But more than three hours later, at around 3:30am ...