{"id":39450,"date":"2017-07-22T04:00:39","date_gmt":"2017-07-22T08:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=39450"},"modified":"2018-11-18T10:53:14","modified_gmt":"2018-11-18T15:53:14","slug":"dunkirk-myth-vs-reality-operation-dynamo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2017\/07\/22\/dunkirk-myth-vs-reality-operation-dynamo\/","title":{"rendered":"Dunkirk Myth vs. Reality &#8211; Operation Dynamo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XXYij5JxC-M\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Published on 7 Jul 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The evacuation of British, Belgian, and French troops at Dunkirk \u2013 Operation Dynamo \u2013 was a crucial event in the early stages of the Second World War. Although the Allies were ultimately severely beaten in the Battle of France, the events at Dunkirk were mostly portrayed and perceived as a victory for the British. Quite naturally various myths surround this event.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bb SOURCES \u00ab<\/p>\n<p>Palmer, Alice: <em>Dunkirk: The Defeat That Inspired a Nation<\/em><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/repository.wellesley.edu\/cgi\/viewcontent.cgi?article=1014&#038;context=library_awards\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/repository.wellesley.edu\/cgi\/viewcontent.cgi?article=1014&#038;context=library_awards<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Alexander, Martin S.: French grand strategy and defence preparations. In: <em>Cambridge History of the Second World War, Volume I<\/em><br \/>\nFrieser, Karl-Heinz: The war in the West, 1939-1940: an unplanned Blitzkrieg. In: <em>Cambridge History of the Second World War, Volume I<\/em><br \/>\nAmazon.com link (affiliate): <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2tuFtuM\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/amzn.to\/2tuFtuM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Gardner, W.J.R. Gardner: <em>The Evacuation from Dunkirk: &#8216;Operation Dynamo&#8217;, 26 May-June 1940<\/em> (Naval Staff Histories)<br \/>\nAmazon.com link (affiliate): <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2uoqMFV\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/amzn.to\/2uoqMFV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>History of The Association of Dunkirk Little Ships<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.adls.org.uk\/t1\/content\/history-association-dunkirk-little-ships\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.adls.org.uk\/t1\/content\/history-association-dunkirk-little-ships<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Mrs. Miniver<\/em><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mrs._Miniver\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mrs._Miniver<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published on 7 Jul 2017 The evacuation of British, Belgian, and French troops at Dunkirk \u2013 Operation Dynamo \u2013 was a crucial event in the early stages of the Second World War. Although the Allies were ultimately severely beaten in the Battle of France, the events at Dunkirk were mostly portrayed and perceived as a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,62,1117,1118,7,5,230],"tags":[145,31,1251,969,30],"class_list":["post-39450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-europe","category-france","category-germany","category-history","category-military","category-ww2","tag-airforce","tag-army","tag-dunkirk","tag-hitler","tag-navy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-agi","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39450"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39451,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39450\/revisions\/39451"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}