{"id":39527,"date":"2017-07-27T03:00:59","date_gmt":"2017-07-27T07:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=39527"},"modified":"2018-11-18T10:52:54","modified_gmt":"2018-11-18T15:52:54","slug":"andrew-roberts-on-dunkirk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2017\/07\/27\/andrew-roberts-on-dunkirk\/","title":{"rendered":"Andrew Roberts on <em>Dunkirk<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It comes with the Niall Ferguson seal of approval:<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Best. Dunkirk. Article. Hats \/ helmets off to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/aroberts_andrew\">@aroberts_andrew<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vjdW2kZtpk\">https:\/\/t.co\/vjdW2kZtpk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Niall Ferguson (@nfergus) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nfergus\/status\/890087374457368577\">July 26, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<blockquote><p>The retreat from the Continent was a perilous time for Britain. The Germans were willing to throw everything into making it as dangerous and costly as possible for the island people. Britain\u2019s French allies were full of suspicion about what they were depicting for propaganda purposes as a treacherous retreat. The British government was in disarray, with senior government ministers even proposing negotiating with the enemy in order to minimize the terrible ultimate cost that they now saw as inevitable. Everyone was crying out for leadership.<\/p>\n<p>But enough about Brexit. What about Christopher Nolan\u2019s new movie about <em>Dunkirk<\/em>?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It comes with the Niall Ferguson seal of approval: Best. Dunkirk. Article. Hats \/ helmets off to @aroberts_andrew https:\/\/t.co\/vjdW2kZtpk &mdash; Niall Ferguson (@nfergus) July 26, 2017 The retreat from the Continent was a perilous time for Britain. The Germans were willing to throw everything into making it as dangerous and costly as possible for the [&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":[7,57,28,230],"tags":[86,1251,122],"class_list":["post-39527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-humour","category-media","category-ww2","tag-criticism","tag-dunkirk","tag-movies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-ahx","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39527","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=39527"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39528,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39527\/revisions\/39528"}],"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=39527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}