Quiet Courage, Not Machismo, is What Makes ‘Dunkirk’ So Compelling0

• Culture
• July 28, 2017

The story of Dunkirk is remarkable. Civilians sailed their fishing boats, pleasure yachts, and trawlers across the English Channel to France to attempt a rescue mission for 400,000 British and French soldiers encircled by Hitler’s Wehrmacht—the German army—in 1940. If those men were captured, England would have effectively been knocked out of the war. In