“Dunkirk” film: What if Hitler had Launched an Invasion?
Invasion in 1940? Timothy Egan poses a thoughtful question in The New York Times. What if Hitler, not hesitating after Dunkirk, had rapidly launched an invasion of Britain? In conveying the movie Dunkirk‘s importance, Egan’s first paragraph is a much better introduction than the film provides: For more than a thousand years, the tribes of Europe have stared into the gun-metal-gray chop of the English Channel and thought of conquest. “We have six centuries of insults to avenge,” said Napoleon. I was just there, on the same spring week when the great bedraggled scraps of the French and British armies were cornered for slaughter by the Nazi war machine 77 years ago.…
