Between 26 May and 4 June, after retreating from the rapid German advance across western Europe, approximately 338,000 Allied ...

Dunkirk, directed by the acclaimed Christopher ... Winston Churchill, Britain's Prime Minister during World War II, called it a "miracle of deliverance" in his famed We Shall Fight on the Beaches ...

Narrator: This response became known as the miracle of Dunkirk. And the country's ability to band together, despite hardship was seen as Dunkirk spirit. The use of propaganda managed to turn ...

Churchill was keen to temper the nation-wide euphoria that so many troops had escaped – the so-called 'miracle of Dunkirk'. Churchill cautioned that: 'We must be very careful not to assign to ...