Dun-Kirked it up

Here is my review of a movie I thought could have done a little better with the material.

When learning about WWII it was clear to see the 2 stages of the war from a western standpoint. There were the 2 pushes in the war the first when the war broke it and a second one that culminated in D-day. The first will be the one I focus on today. This first offensive to Wikipedia it was an absolute “failure” in the late spring and early summer of 1940.

However there is another non-Wikipedia explanation for it. This is the one I heard about first. The almost mythic story in the UK is something that everyone knows and respects. In a nutshell Dunkirk was a large military evacuation in northern France of British and French troops. However what makes it unique is the way they were evacuated. Over 300,000 people were evacuated in large part by civilian boats. They were called to aid by the navy and the British people answered the call. This is why I put failure in quotation marks. While it was a military failure, it was an evacuation, to the British it was seen as a triumph of not only the military but the people as well. It was a deep personal victory for the British people.

It is on this backdrop that Dunkirk sets its scene.

https://youtu.be/3zP4s_Tuqlc