Review various sources for the Dunkirk incident that occurred during WW2.
Dunkirk is a seaport in northern France on the North Sea and was the scene of what in simple terms could be called the evacuation of British forces in 1940 during World War II but in reality, was so much more. More than 300,000 troops were evacuated from Dunkirk and the surrounding beaches in May and June 1940. At the time the British Prime Minister Winston Churchill said it was "a miracle of deliverance". The “miracle” was that it was not naval vessels that rescued them but instead ordinary people that sailed across the English Channel in their own boats.
Recently, as part of my history class, we have been watching Documentaries about this amazing event from different perspectives and we also went to see the …show more content…
Joshua Levine is a historical writer who went on to write the book Dunkirk: The History Behind the Major Motion Picture after working on the movie. This book was mostly based on an earlier book he had written called Forgotten Voices of Dunkirk, which was a collection of stories, all firsthand accounts by both civilians and soldiers who had taken part in the “Dunkirk Miracle”. It was this book, Forgotten Voices of Dunkirk that Christopher Nolan used to research his movie Dunkirk. Given this you would think that Nolan’s movie would be factually accurate however in a DGA Quarterly interview about the movie Nolan admitted that he never really set out to keep perfectly to the facts, he said that instead followed the thinking of Werner Herzog's idea of "ecstatic truth" in fiction. "It's the idea that fiction can communicate something more truthful to audiences about actual events than documentary," said Nolan. "By using fiction, I was able to explain various aspects of what happened in Dunkirk more efficiently and with more emotional clarity than by just following strict
Dunkirk is a seaport in northern France on the North Sea and was the scene of what in simple terms could be called the evacuation of British forces in 1940 during World War II but in reality, was so much more. More than 300,000 troops were evacuated from Dunkirk and the surrounding beaches in May and June 1940. At the time the British Prime Minister Winston Churchill said it was "a miracle of deliverance". The “miracle” was that it was not naval vessels that rescued them but instead ordinary people that sailed across the English Channel in their own boats.
Recently, as part of my history class, we have been watching Documentaries about this amazing event from different perspectives and we also went to see the …show more content…
Joshua Levine is a historical writer who went on to write the book Dunkirk: The History Behind the Major Motion Picture after working on the movie. This book was mostly based on an earlier book he had written called Forgotten Voices of Dunkirk, which was a collection of stories, all firsthand accounts by both civilians and soldiers who had taken part in the “Dunkirk Miracle”. It was this book, Forgotten Voices of Dunkirk that Christopher Nolan used to research his movie Dunkirk. Given this you would think that Nolan’s movie would be factually accurate however in a DGA Quarterly interview about the movie Nolan admitted that he never really set out to keep perfectly to the facts, he said that instead followed the thinking of Werner Herzog's idea of "ecstatic truth" in fiction. "It's the idea that fiction can communicate something more truthful to audiences about actual events than documentary," said Nolan. "By using fiction, I was able to explain various aspects of what happened in Dunkirk more efficiently and with more emotional clarity than by just following strict