Long Night Of The Little Boats Analysis

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In the “Long Night of the Little Boats” humans’ values, both on the part of the little boat rescuers and the soldiers, played a part in the outcome of Dunkirk. However the British common citizens came together to help the British defeat Germany. The British soldiers were trapped in Dunkirk, France and were almost defeated by the Germany soldiers. In Paragraph 1, it said “There were fishing boats, shrimp catchers, and ancient car Ferrier helped the British army. Paragraph 2 there were “bankers, dentists, taxi drivers, yachtsmen, old longshoremen and very young boys, engineers, and fisherman that were helping the British army also. Paragraph 7, it says “The primary targets weren’t the little boats it was the big boats the little boats carried

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