Posted on 05/26/2016 4:38:05 AM PDT by DFG
Hollywood has pulled out all the stops for the silver screen recreation one of the biggest operations of World War 2. On Thursday 325 extras lined up on the beaches of Dunkirk, in the exact spot where 76 years ago this week 338,000 British, French and Belgian troops were evacuated in Operation Dynamo. Director Christopher Nolan assembled his men alongside a few cardboard cut-outs to bolster the troops, as he continues shooting his epic new movie which stars the likes of Tom Hardy, Cillian Murphy, Kenneth Branagh, Mark Rylance and One Direction singer Harry Styles.
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When is the last time the Hollywood establishment made a movie about when we win?
They do quite often actually. It’s just that Hollywood defines “we” and “winning” differently.
There is a Brit TV series Foyles War that places a Brit murder inspector in strategic places to describe the current events in ‘40-’41 a la War and Remembrance.
The program did a fantastic job with the Dunkirk withdrawal.
It’s on NetFlix and is highly recommended
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Leave it to Hollywood to celebrate defeat.
It’s a very good series but the episodes that take place after the war don’t seem to have the same spark.
actually the ordinary stepped up into the extraordinary and saved an army from defeat.
(not to be confused with the mainstream media that has blacked out the comments of Obama’s Hiroshima visit and the ivory tower trying to turn victory into defeat.)
I haven’t got that far yet
The Dunkirk evacuation of all those soldiers made it all but impossible for the Germans to invade Britain. It was a “victory” in that it allowed the Brits to stay in the war.
It’s just my opinion and I hope I didn’t give out a spoiler alert.
Indeed. And some brave men had to stay behind as a forlorn hope to cover the retreat.
One of the most inspiring talks I've ever heard was given by a missionary lady describing the Dunkirk rescue. These were not merely "troops" to the British public. They were sons, brothers, fathers, husbands and neighbors.
When the large transport ships could not get close enough to the beaches to load, Churchill put out the call for small boats that could. Fishing boats, yachts, small work boats - anything that could float and make the Channel crossing headed out to save their loved ones. Epic story about everyone doing what is necessary to save those they love.
"For God so lover the world that He gave His only Son..."
"This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you."
"Therefore go and make disciples of all nations..."
I’ll be looking for that as soon as it’s pirated on YouTube with interest ;)
I’m looking forward to reading the book, “1941” about the politics of WWII. We all wonder at the situation Britain and France allowed themselves to get into, and which the US also allowed. But the reality is that nobody in the US wanted a piece of the action (polling ran 4:1 against) before Pearl Harbor. FDR was appalled at the prospect of the fall of Britain, and concomitant threat that the Royal Navy could pose to America if Hitler took it over.We think of the US as entering WWII completely unprepared, and that is sorta true - there was a severe shortage of military equipment in the US at that time. However, that shortage existed because FDR was propping up the British with as much equipment as he could - and despite the fact that he had also been ramping up the production of military equipment as fast as he could ever since the May, 1940 Fall of France.
It is well known that Britain sent RADAR and other military secrets/technology to the US. It is less well known that that occurred upon the Fall of France, not later.
well...not quite. The Germans never really had the ability to invade the UK in WWII. Their staff study showed that at best case they could land 38~45,000 men by sea (one mountain corps), along with one parachute division (7th) and one air-landing division (22nd). Under 100,000 men.
Not enough to do much except ensure a German defeat on UK soil.
In Liddell Hart’s book “The German Generals Speak, 1948”, it is pointed out that Hitler deliberately let the Brits escape at Dunkirk, as he was seeking an armistice with the UK, not a long drawn out war. His evil intentions were directed to the East.
“The program did a fantastic job with the Dunkirk withdrawal. It’s on NetFlix and is highly recommended”
ABSOLUTELY - outstanding show. Instead of just blood and guts, you really got a feel of what life was like under the siege that Britain went through.
Sad that they’re in the process of throwing it all away, though.
The evacuation probably saved England. Certainly there was no army without it.
But Winston Churchill put it in perspective: “Wars are not won by great evacuations.”
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