"Hope is a weapon. Survival is victory." One of the standout movies from 2017 is Dunkirk, Christopher Nolan's intense and riveting WWII thriller about the Dunkirk evacuation in 1940 at the beginning ...

Shattered by bomb impacts, the 100-meter-long British destroyer "Keith" has been lying at the bottom of the Dunkirk channel since its sinking in 1940. It went down during Operation Dynamo, when ...

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 May ...

As France fell to the German armies in May 1940, 400,000 Allied troops were trapped on the beaches of Dunkirk. Their annihilation seemed certain—a disaster that could have led to Britain’s surrender.

In May 1940, German Panzer divisions launched a lightning campaign that stunned Europe. Breaking through the Ardennes, they surrounded Allied armies and pushed toward the English Channel, trapping ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: There were four hundred thousand British and French troops to evacuate through a moderate-sized port whose docks were being destroyed by bombs and shells. Even under ...

1. This collection of firsthand accounts by veterans of the 1939-40 Blitzkrieg campaigns delivers insights from two generations. Here are Wehrmacht soldiers conscripted by Hitler’s Third Reich, ...

Christopher Nolan's new war movie has critics uniting to sing its praises. By Graeme McMillan War is hell, as everyone knows. War movies, on the other hand, are another story — and with reviews for ...

LAS VEGAS — An impassioned Christopher Nolan introduced intense footage from his World War II epic “Dunkirk,” expressing his goal of taking moviegoers back to the massive 1940 evacuation. “This is a ...

How courage and ingenuity saved Allied troops during the epic Dunkirk operation in 1940. As France fell to the German armies in May 1940, 400,000 Allied troops were trapped on the beaches of Dunkirk.