Wars are not won by evacuation, but George Washington’s decision to evacuate Long Island in August 1776 ultimately saved the ...

During the dramatic Dunkirk evacuation, the skies became a deadly battleground between Britain’s agile Spitfires and ...

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, ...

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 ...