But then there was his audition for "Dunkirk." He says he "got very far" in the process. So much so that he was called in to read with director Christopher Nolan. "He starts reading the scene ...

A ship berthed in Hartlepool that played a key part in one of the defining moments of the Second World War is hoped to return to the scene of her “finest hour”.

Listen to eight survivors of the Dunkirk evacuation recount their stories in this audio gallery. In early May 1940, during the first year of World War Two, the British Expeditionary Force (BEF ...

In 1940 he was with thousands of other soldiers on the beaches at Dunkirk waiting to be evacuated. Whilst they waited for the boats the soldiers were shot at and bombed, and the Germans dropped ...