THIS sheet is a continuation northward of the map of the British battle front in France and Flanders previously published by the same firm. It extends from Dunkirk in the west to within six miles ...

By Weper Hermann, 13 German Mobile Assault Unit - Imperial War Museums, Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons The main reason France collapsed so quickly in 1940 was the element of surprise enjoyed by ...

Dunkirk, the subject of Christopher Nolan’s new movie, was both a battle and evacuation. Explaining the evacuation at the heart of Christopher Nolan’s latest. Intelligencer ...

A step-by-step guide to the battle. This page is best viewed in an up-to-date web browser with style sheets (CSS) enabled.

In 1940, as casualties mounted across Europe, the Allied military evacuation of some 338,000 troops from Dunkirk, France, proved to be a pivotal moment in World War II.

The seventy-seventh anniversary of the Dunkirk evacuation has already received a great deal of attention, in no doubt due to the pending release of Christopher Nolan’s new film treatment of the ...

As Christopher Nolan's film Dunkirk hits theaters, here's what you need to know about the real history behind the battle and evacuation. The story takes place amid real events of 1940 Sign Up for ...

The Battle of Dunkirk was a spectacular defeat for the British, yet the retreat is a point of pride in Britain today. Robert Siegel speaks with historian Andrew Roberts, about the movie Dunkirk.

But in the spring of 1940, the Battle of Dunkirk turned out to be one of the most successful military evacuations in history, as the British Navy and civilian ship rescued 330,000 soldiers.

“Dunkirk: Fight to the Last Man” by Hugo Sebag-Montefiore Harvard University Press, 701 pp., $35. On May 10, 1940, Germany invaded France, ending the so-called Phony War, the deceptive lull in ...