In late May, against the backdrop of the Dunkirk evacuation and the unstoppable German advance, Churchill disregarded calls for peace talks with Hitler. Britain would fight on, he ordered.

‘For days past there has been no real news and little possibility of inferring what is really happening,” wrote George Orwell in his diary, on 28 May 1940. “Last night, E[ileen] and I went ...

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He was praising the remarkable evacuation of 338,226 British ... The film may become a huge success, but the reality of Dunkirk was, as Winston Churchill described it, a "colossal military disaster".

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Bruno believes the Dunkirk evacuation - inspired by the British wartime leader Winston Churchill - was an essential precursor to the D-Day landings four years later, which helped to save France ...

Unique and historically significant films shot 75 years ago, during the evacuation of Allied forces from Dunkirk in 1940, have been discovered at The University of Manchester Library. The videos can ...

Churchill said that the evacuation from Dunkirk was a heroic accomplishment, but that Britain must not think of it as a victory. “Wars are not won by evacuations,” he said. “But there was a ...

Unique and historically significant films shot 75 years ago, during the evacuation of Allied forces from Dunkirk in 1940, have been discovered at The University of Manchester Library. The reels of ...

This video dives into the widely held belief that the RAF failed during the Dunkirk evacuation and separates myth from reality. Discover the true story of their efforts during one of WWII’s most ...