Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It was a miracle of deliverance. Orders had gone out to military officers to collect “every kind of watercraft … that could be ...

Dunkirk is a story of the early days of World War II when over 400,000 Allied soldiers are trapped by Nazi forces savagely closing in on them from all sides. Stranded on a beach in Dunkirk, France, ...

Josef Turek, a Czech veteran of the Second World War battles at Dunkirk, has received France’s highest state decoration, the Legion of Honour. The award was presented on Wednesday in Olomouc by French ...

War movies aren’t usually the place for filmmakers to experiment. There’s the weight of history to consider, the responsibility to present things as they really happened. And audiences know what to ...

It was a miracle of deliverance. Orders had gone out to military officers to collect "every kind of watercraft … that could be kept afloat and had either oars or sails," to slip roughly 9,000 men ...

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.