Agree.
Hitler saw the Brits as cousins and really didn’t want to fight them.
He could have ended it all, right there, had he choosen.
He stayed his hand and later paid for it.
Did you ENJOY the film.
Some said it plodded, was boring.
What did you think?
There are so many decisions that “cost him the war” it’s really difficult to find just one.
Invading Russia cost Hitler the war, just as it cost Napoleon.
I’ll defer to your teacher but a massacre may have inflamed US public opinion (which was pretty neutral then) against Germany.
A wondeful film, we enjoyed it and will be buying a dvd. Very well done by all.
Some of the boats in the movie were used for the evacuation. They are flying a flag which can only be flown by boats which participated in the battle.
Btw, Churchill ordered the Navy to pick up the French on the beach after the English had been evacuated and they were able to get 26,000 to England (about half ) as the defensive lines collapsed.
A very inspiring tale.
If only YOU could have been in charge of that war.........That armchair must be pretty warn out.......LOL!
Lots of theories as to why the Germans stalled x 2 days, one being Hitler was hopeful the British would accept the good will so he could turn his full attention on the USSR.
Thought the movie was excellent. Five stars!
I saw it. There are three different story lines on asynchronous dilated timelines. Don’t bother trying to make sense of anything. Just enjoy the pretty colors.
WARNING: SPOILER FOLLOWS
the end part where Tom Hardy has stayed to defend the troops, runs out of gas and glides in was magic.
The British Navy committed a cruiser and 39 destroyers to the Dunkirk operation. Six were sunk and 19 damaged. One of the major issues was the shallow waters off the beaches prevented even small craft from approaching closer than 100 yards from the beaches.
I heard that the film is racially insensitive. It apparently has no Mexican-American characters or actors as well as no blacks.
The Falklands might just declare unilateral Independence or themselves invite Argentina in to avoid Islamization.
I was saddened at the lack of women of color in the leading roles as well as the lack of representation of the lgbtqrstuv community/sarc
Waiting on the sequel.
The U.S. should NEVER put itself in that position
Look up Pusan.
I love Nolan films but this is revisionist garbage. Hitler did not want war with England-nor did England want war with Germany. He let the Brits go. WWI and WWII drained Europe of their best and brightest. The Muslims will take over without a single Division. Just time and European stupidity. This is their WWIII and they don’t even see it. Their best and brightest were killed off long ago before leaving heirs to take their place.
will see it on Tuesday. i am facilitating a class in the fall for OLLI on The Great Patriotic War. All my students are retirees and, like me, had 50 years of German bias as to what actually happen on the eastern front.
Hitler needed the economic resources plus defending Ploesti and his oil resources. Main reason to invade Crete. He did not make every dumb decision unlike what we grew up with. The generals will still fighting like in western Europe, take the capital and win. Russia was not like that. Hitler’s no retreat from Moscow saved the German army in the winter ‘42 and he was persuaded to attack at Kursk.
My belief from all my post Soviet Union reading (Jonathan House, David Glantz, John Mosier etc) is the Russians were going to attack out of the Ukraine in the summer of 42 and would have smashed the wehrmacht. Barbarossa, like Pearl Harbor, was a roll the dice desperation attack.
Yes i have read ICEBREAKER by Suvarov and i do not agree with his assessment.
The film to rent which will give you a good idea of the time is “Mrs Miniver” starring Greer Garson and Walter Pigeon.