I told all of my friends to go see the movie Dunkirk because that history was unbelievable, then and still is all these years later. The movie told a lot of the story. However the “miracle” of Dunkirk ...

Editor’s note: This story was originally published on June 4, 2024. A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. In 1940, as casualties mounted across Europe, the ...

An illustration depicting Gen. George Washington directing the retreat of the Continental Army across the East River, Aug. 29, 1776. (Interim Archives/Getty Images) It was a miracle of deliverance.

Filmmaker Christopher Nolan, the British director and sole writer of this film about 400,000 men trapped on a beach in Dunkirk, France, with their backs to the sea in 1940, goes away from his “Dark ...

Eighty-five years on from the historic rescue of hundreds of thousands of Allied troops from France, a flotilla of little ships have recreated the biggest evacuation in military history. Operation ...

The plaque, a replica of a gift to the people of Dunkerque, France, hangs in the second floor corridor of Dunkirk City Hall, a couple of blocks from Lake Erie. It has been there for decades, a gesture ...

A POOLE exhibition is highlighing the town's role in the Dunkirk evacuation. The Poole at Dunkirk 1940 exhibition, which has been set up at Lighthouse, tells the stories of the people of Poole who ...

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Here’s What You Need to Remember: Ultimately, the most crucial consequence of surrender at Dunkirk would have been not manpower and morale, but timing. Between June 1940 and the second half of 1941, ...