Most of us beyond a certain age have long been looking forward to the Christopher Nolan film Dunkirk.  The film depicts the nine-day rescue of more than three hundred thirty thousand British and Allied troops stranded in the French city of Dunkirk, May 26 to June 4, 1940.  Poland, Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands, and Belgium had all surrendered.  The troops were trapped, with Germans on three sides, leaving only the sea as a possible escape route.  Churchill ordered their evacuation by sea, enlisting 861 small personal boats skippered by British citizens.  They sailed from all over the south of England to Dunkirk as part of Operation Dynamo.  They pulled men from the water, off sinking ships, and off the beach.  This was accomplished under constant air attacks by the German Luftwaffe. The film begins with the fliers dropped over Dunkirk by the Germans advising surrender, as the...(Read Full Post)