dunkirk

The British evacuated Dunkirk but their Air Force and navy did very well against their German counterparts.

Likely down to 100,000s of fishing boats / commercial vessels to distribute survivability for a reverse dunkirk.

Indeed, one of the big critiques of his films (excluding Dunkirk and Oppenheimer) was that they generally lack any emotional depth.

That's a Nolan thing like how Dunkirk used no green screen.

The standard British vision of Dunkirk is highly misleading.

We celebrate our defeats and our withdrawals – the Battle of Hastings, Dunkirk I'm having rouble reconciling the first sentence with the second.

: The arc measurement of Delambre and Méchain was a geodetic survey carried out by Jean-Baptiste Delambre and Pierre Méchain in 1792–1798 to measure an arc section of the Paris meridian between Dunkirk and Barcelona.

> The arc measurement of Delambre and Méchain was a geodetic survey carried out by Jean-Baptiste Delambre and Pierre Méchain in 1792–1798 to measure an arc section of the Paris meridian between Dunkirk and Barcelona.

When I left the UK in 2018, people were still talking about Dunkirk like it was a British victory rather than a rolling defeat whose only (even then partially) successful component was the final evacuation; about WW2 like it was a simple victory rather than a Pyrrhic victory; and about the Empire like the end of it was the UK's choice.

Loads of examples from WW2 like Dunkirk/Operation Hannibal where you see the sacrifice of material for civilians.

By that definition the by far most cited example on the British side, Dunkirk, doesn’t count because Britain won in the end.

Paddle steamers were very useful at Dunkirk, big boats that could get very close to the beach and embark the evacuees directly.