In May 1940, as German forces sealed the Dunkirk pocket, the SS division later known as Das Reich faced one of its earliest and most dangerous tests. French and British counterattacks struck its ...

In the first week of June 1940, the Dunkirk evacuation ends with over 338,000 Allied troops rescued, but 40,000 are left behind as German forces enter the town. Britain celebrates survival, while ...

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 France fell to the German armies in May 1940, 400,000 Allied troops were trapped on the beaches of Dunkirk. Their annihilation seemed certain—a disaster that could have led to Britain’s surrender.

Here’s What You Need to Remember: There were four hundred thousand British and French troops to evacuate through a moderate-sized port whose docks were being destroyed by bombs and shells. Even under ...

1. This collection of firsthand accounts by veterans of the 1939-40 Blitzkrieg campaigns delivers insights from two generations. Here are Wehrmacht soldiers conscripted by Hitler’s Third Reich, ...

LAS VEGAS — An impassioned Christopher Nolan introduced intense footage from his World War II epic “Dunkirk,” expressing his goal of taking moviegoers back to the massive 1940 evacuation. “This is a ...

How courage and ingenuity saved Allied troops during the epic Dunkirk operation in 1940. As France fell to the German armies in May 1940, 400,000 Allied troops were trapped on the beaches of Dunkirk.