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   Why did the British retreat to Dunkirk?

   • The British Admiralty had been collecting every kind of small craft it could find to help in removing the troops, and the British retreat to the coast now became a race to evacuate the troops before the Germans could occupy Dunkirk.

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   Will 'Dunkirk' be a rare World War II movie?

   • "Trailer: Chris Nolan's 'Dunkirk' Will Try To Be A Rare Breakout World War II Movie". Forbes. Archived from the original on 1 June 2017. ^ a b c d e f D'Alessandro, Anthony (23 July 2017). " 'Dunkirk' Takes Warner Bros Past $1B; 'Girls Trip' Record Opening For Malcolm D. Lee; Reasons Why 'Valerian' Crashed". Deadline Hollywood.

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   How did the Royal Navy get to Dunkirk?

   • The Royal Navy requisitions civilian vessels in England to get to Dunkirk. In Weymouth, civilian sailor Dawson, with his son Peter, set out in his boat Moonstone, rather than let the Navy commandeer her. Their teenage hand George joins them on impulse.

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   Does Dunkirk have any practical effects?

   • Dunkirk has extensive practical effects. It employed thousands of extras as well as historic boats from the evacuation, and period aeroplanes. Distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures, Dunkirk premiered at Odeon Leicester Square in London, a few days before its release in the United Kingdom and United States on 21 July 2017.

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   How much money did Dunkirk make?

   • Distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures, Dunkirk premiered at Odeon Leicester Square in London, a few days before its release in the United Kingdom and United States on 21 July 2017. It grossed $527 million worldwide, making it the highest-grossing World War II film until it was surpassed by Nolan's Oppenheimer (2023).

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   Is 'Dunkirk' a Tour de force war movie?

   • "Review: 'Dunkirk' Is a Tour de Force War Movie, Both Sweeping and Intimate". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 23 July 2017. ^ "Best Movies of 2017". The New York Times. 6 December 2017. Archived from the original on 6 December 2017. Retrieved 20 August 2021. ^ LeSalle, Mick (18 July 2017).

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   4 days ago · World War II - Dunkirk Evacuation: Dunkirk was now the only port left available for the withdrawal of the mass of the British Expeditionary Force from Europe, and the British Cabinet at last decided to save what could be saved.

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   5 days ago · In Listening to Britain: Home Intelligence Reports on Britain’s Finest Hour, May to September 1940 (2010), the late Paul Addison and I published a complete set of the HI reports covering the period of the Dunkirk evacuation, the Battle of Britain and the early weeks of the Blitz.

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   5 days ago · The Dunkirk evacuation, code-named Operation Dynamo and also known as the Miracle of ... On the first day only 7,669 Allied soldiers were evacuated, but by the end of the eighth day, 338,226 had been rescued by a hastily assembled fleet ...

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   4 days ago · Dunkirk is a 2017 epic historical war thriller film written, directed, and co-produced by Christopher Nolan that depicts the Dunkirk evacuation of World War II from the perspectives of the land, sea, and air.

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   4 days ago · World War II - Allied Landings, Defeat of Axis: The success of the Sicilian operation and the fall of Mussolini led to a new turn of strategical thought that necessitated a new Anglo-U.S. conference, which took place in Quebec in mid-August 1943 and was code-named “Quadrant.”.

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   2 hours ago · The British Expeditionary Force is trapped at Dunkirk and Calais, and Britain begins preparing for a German invasion. Against the advice of the War Cabinet, Churchill orders Brigadier Nicholson in Calais to lead the 30th Infantry Brigade to distract the enemy and buy time for the evacuation of soldiers from Dunkirk. The debacle in France causes ...

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   4 days ago · Thereafter German strategic air operations over England withered. World War II - Battle of Britain, RAF, Luftwaffe: With France conquered, Hitler could now turn his forces on Germany's sole remaining enemy: Great Britain.