When the Germans Panzers move north from Calais, the British Expeditionary Force and France's soldiers still fighting in Belgium and Northern France are trapped between a numerically superior German ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The sheer improbability of the Dunkirk evacuation is laid bare by the expectations of the British Admiralty: secretly, they feared they would only ...

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 ...

As German tanks punched through France in May 1940, the unthinkable happened: British forces were trapped at Dunkirk, French armies were cut off and collapsing, and in just six weeks, the world’s most ...