Exhausted British troops on the quayside at Dover, May 31 1940.
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It may not have been Britain’s finest hour, but was it Fleet Street’s?
Soviet troops advancing at Stalingrad.
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Two big battles which turned the tide of World War II can tell us a great deal about some important present-day challenges.
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Operation Dynamo came to represent British resilience, but it came at a terrible cost.
French POWs being led away from the battlefield in May 1940.
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How French memories of the Dunkirk evacuation differ from those of the British.
A scene from ‘Dunkirk,’ a Warner Bros. Pictures release.
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Moviegoers get a hint of why Dunkirk stayed with those who lived through it, but an online archive of survivors’ stories offers more depth.
Hope for the future?
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Conditions are getting worse at the migrant camps in France, which is leading to protest.
Epic story of courage? Or dangerous shambles?
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For most British people the Dunkirk evacuation between May 26 and June 4 1940 was the most significant early event of World War II. And in the 75 years since those momentous events it has come to occupy…