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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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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.