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 ...

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 ...

Written and directed by Christopher Nolan (The Dark Knight, Inception), this World War II epic dramatizes the heroic three-day effort to evacuate French, British, and Belgian troops from the French ...

Written and directed by Christopher Nolan (The Dark Knight, Inception), this World War II epic dramatizes the heroic three-day effort to evacuate French, British, and Belgian troops from the French ...

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 ...

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.