Dunkirk 
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8-15-17
How Accurate Is “Dunkirk”?
by Robert Huddleston
The motion picture is an excellent opening chapter to the Second World War.
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7-13-17
Think “Dunkirk” Is Epic? Check Out the Soviet War Memorial in Berlin’s Treptower Park.
by Peter Cole
It just might be the most impressive and important war memorial Americans never have heard of.
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7-23-17
Yes, You Should See the Movie About Dunkirk
by Bruce Chadwick
Despite weaknesses, "Dunkirk" is a stunning, new and different kind of war movie.
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SOURCE: The Times of London
7-20-17
The Dunkirk myth never told our real story
by David Aaronovitch
We British tell ourselves we’re at our best when standing alone but the long history of empire disproves that.
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SOURCE: The Conversation
7-19-17
Dunkirk survivors’ terror didn’t end when they were rescued
Christopher Nolan, the director of the Dunkirk movie, consulted with survivors to get their stories. This is one of the lessons he learned.
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SOURCE: BBC News
4-30-13
World War II prisoner's coded letters deciphered
Coded letters sent from a British prisoner of war to his parents in Cornwall have been deciphered thanks to academics at Plymouth University.Sub Lt John Pryor was captured at Dunkirk in 1940 and sent to a German prisoner of war (PoW) camp.He was held for the next five years but as a reward for good behaviour he was allowed to send letters home to his parents in Saltash.Those letters contained secret messages for the British military.The research began after military intelligence expert Barbara Bond, a pro-chancellor at the university, heard about the letters from Sub Lt Pryor's son Stephen, a university governor....