Vol. 33, No. 16
August 21, 2017
Dunkirk: Miracle or Blunder?
In WWII, more than 300,000 Allied soldiers made a providential escape from France when German forces had them trapped. Was it a “miracle” or something else? ...
From the print edition of The New American
Director Christopher Nolan produced a dramatic masterpiece with his Dunkirk movie this summer, bringing to the screen the story of how more than 300,000 British and Allied soldiers escaped either death or captivity from the French beaches of Dunkirk. From shortly after the event, the massive evacuation was referred to as “the miracle of Dunkirk.”
Others, however, have referred to it as “the blunder of Dunkirk,” referencing either decisions made by the French and the British leading up to what was really a military disaster for both those nations, or inexplicable decisions made by the German side, which made the mass evacuation possible.
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