With seven Oscar nominations and box office figures that made over four times its budget, British director Joe Wright's ...

Cologne was subject to particularly heavy bombings during World War II, with unexploded artillery still posing a threat to ...

A film that was described as “very British”, depicting another angle of the second world war, is leaving BBC iPlayer in no ...

East Sussex 1, a Maritime Volunteer Service training vessel, led the Dunkirk Little Ships safely home in a historic Channel crossing marking ...

Prime Minister Winston Churchill’s stirring declaration of "miracle of deliverance" remembered to this day. Read more.

In 1942, the Battle of Midway began. It raged for four days and was the turning point for the United States in the World War ...

More than 338,000 soldiers of the Allied Forces were evacuated from the beaches of Dunkirk in France on June 4, 1940, making ...

Shah Salim Sajjadi, 38, and Safiollah Mohammadi, 25, were detained after the packed dinghy arrived onshore in Dover on May 21 ...

Nine months after World War II began, the German Nazi war machine drove French, British, and Belgian troops west across France into a town on the English Channel’s coast, called Dunkirk. By late ...

With the loss of the last Dunkirk vet, the job of remembrance falls to the little ships, says Steffan Meyric Hughes.