Boy, think about what a gorefest in REAL life it would have been if the Nazis hadn’t stopped their infantry and armor advances for a couple of weeks to rest and rebuild!
Yes, it was almost Hitchcockian in its expression of that sentiment without the graphic mayhem to drive it home.
The scene that stuck out for me was when all those men were lined up on that long pier, and one guy heard the German plane. At first faintly, and he looked up in fear, teeth grimacing in tension, searching for the sound, hoping he wasn’t actually hearing it, then a few more, then people who had been in conversation stopped and looked up, searching, faces also grimacing in fear and tension, then when everyone caught sight of them, the collective shudder and maneuvering in no space to maneuver to find cover.
“Boy, think about what a gorefest in REAL life it would have been if the Nazis hadn’t stopped their infantry and armor advances for a couple of weeks to rest and rebuild!”
The first mistake the Germans made was attacking Poland which guaranteed England’s declaration of war.
The second mistake was stopping their advance to rest and repair their armor.
It gave England the chance to rescue the core of their European army. Those same men would land in Normandy in 1944 to guarantee a third front that the Germans couldn’t counter.
Yes, the scenes on the mole were pretty intense.
When the evacuation ship was hit and cast off so it wouldn’t sink and obstruct other ships was a heartbreaker. Imagine what the men still on the mole were thinking.