Listen to eight survivors of the Dunkirk evacuation recount their stories in this audio gallery. In early May 1940, during the first year of World War Two, the British Expeditionary Force (BEF ...

Four years after a humiliating retreat at Dunkirk the allies are poised to ... As a result the troops landing on the D Day beaches had a series of objectives and one of them, the most ambitious ...

Plans for a 'Dunkirk-style' evacuation of up to 16,000 ... conducted reconnaissance along the Lebanese coast to choose a landing site. Border Force officials would process UK nationals as they ...

Dick Whitford, who went to sea at the age of 14 to support his family, was called up to serve on a hospital ship in World War II. To pass time between the Dunkirk evacuations, D-Day landings and many ...