A BOAT owned by an Isle of Wight couple will take part in the 85th anniversary of the Dunkirk evacuation in France. The ...

A ship berthed in Hartlepool that played a key part in one of the defining moments of the Second World War is hoped to return to the scene of her “finest hour”.

In this programme, he recounts the scenes he witnessed on the road to Dunkirk. In his view ... He was captured during the First Battle of Ypres and remained a prisoner until the end of the ...

approximately 340,000 men were picked up by some 900 ships, many of them small, privately-owned vessels. Demoralised, starving and exhausted, the men waiting on the beaches of Dunkirk endured days ...

The money will also support its voyage to Dunkirk for an 85th Anniversary event in May. The tug, which is currently moored at River Medway, was tasked with towing damaged ships back to safety ...

London: Pen & Sword Frontline / Philadelphia: Casemate, 2014. Pp. xx, 252. Illus., maps, gloss., appends., notes, biblio., index. . $39.95. ISBN: 1848327331. Although ...