France’s sudden defeat at the start of World War II shocked the world. This video explains how German planning, French ...

In late 1939 and early 1940, four Hurricane squadrons crossed into France with the British Expeditionary Force, expecting ...

From Rebecca, to The Best Years of Our Lives, to The Lost Weekend, which 1940s Best Picture Oscar winner is the absolute greatest of them all?

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Eighty years ago today, Britain began an enormous rush to pull its troops out of France. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill feared this would become known as the greatest military disaster ...

At the end of May 1940, Western Europe hung in the balance. France was disintegrating, Nazi armies poured like a tide of steel through the Netherlands and Belgium, and virtually the whole British ...

Sergeant George Walker Braidwood, from Shrewsbury, was serving in the Highland Light Infantry when it was sent to France to battle Hitler's Nazi army as part of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) ...

LONDON, June 5, 1940 (UP) -- A French artillery captain, one of the last of Dunkirk's defenders to escape from the advancing Germans, reached the English coast today after 24 hours of rowing in the ...

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 ...