Yet, even in this desperate time, a month after taking the reins as prime minister – and self-appointed War Lord – Churchill had the miracle of Dunkirk. As you know, more than 300,000 troops were ...

The other heroes are civilians who, at Churchill's urging, sailed their fishing boats, pleasure craft and ferries to rescue compatriots stranded in Dunkirk's shallow waters. Churchill had expected ...

In 1940, Winston Churchill ordered the evacuation of 338,000 troops facing annihilation on the beaches of Dunkirk. Churchill called the successful operation “a miracle of deliverance.” Historians ...

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 ...

In Their Finest Hour, the 1949 second volume of his war memoir, Churchill recounts the meeting he held in Paris during the Dunkirk crisis with, among others, Marshal Pétain (who would soon surrender ...

What is one to think as one watches the clown show in the White House, the train wreck in Congress, and the multi-vehicle accident that is conservatism today? We’re inclined (as we so often are) ...