Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The front page of the Deseret News on June 4, 1940, announcing the ongoing evacuation of Allied troops from Dunkirk, France.

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.

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 ...

Filmmaker Christopher Nolan, the British director and sole writer of this film about 400,000 men trapped on a beach in Dunkirk, France, with their backs to the sea in 1940, goes away from his “Dark ...

The 85th anniversary of the military operation takes place this weekend. Often referred to as ‘the miracle of the little ships’ it saw 850 private boats of all shapes and sizes sailed from UK shores ...

In 1940 thousands of Allied troops were surrounded, with water on one side & Nazis everywhere else. They needed a miracle, and they got one.

A fleet of 66 'little ships' is set to sail from Ramsgate to the French port to commemorate the 85th anniversary of Operation Dynamo. From 26 May to 4 June 1940, about 1,000 vessels sailed through ...

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.