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DZ Season 059 Part 24. Blitzkrieg – Born May 1940 – Died December 1941 – The Miracle of Dunkirk – Was It Literally a Miracle? Final Part.
That well known left newspaper, the Guardian, used a word normally forbidden in its pages. The word’s a Christian word. Especially known to be associated with Jesus Christ. That word is miracle. But the story of what happened at Dunkirk forced the hand of the reviewer Mark Kermode, in his review of Christopher Nolan’s 2017 movie Dunkirk. The reviewer tells us:
Intertitles tell us that British and French troops are “hoping for deliverance… for a miracle”, while the Bergman-esque spectre of death haunts the beach. Entitled “The Mole” (after the jutting stone and wood structure from which marine evacuation beckons),
The actual unspoken words that appear on the screen are:
The enemy have driven the British and the French Armies to the Sea.
Trapped at Dunkirk, they await their fate.
Hoping for Deliverance.
For a Miracle.
As I told you at the beginning of the last programme, the Cambridge Dictionary defines a miracle in these terms:
An unusual and mysterious event that is thought to have been caused by a god because it does not followthe usual laws of nature.
Was the escape of the British Army and a significant part of the French Army trapped at Dunkirk, a miracle from God? I’ll tell you the facts and you decide for yourself.
Tag words: Christopher Nolan; Dunkirk; Blitzkrieg; Operation Dynamo; British Expeditionary Force;Jesus Christ; General Sir Edmund Ironsides; Chief of the Imperial General Staff; CIGS; King George VI; Exodus; Parting of the Red Sea; Quran; Koran; Captain William Tennant; Vice-Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsay; Stuka; Ju 87; Captain E.F. Wharton; the Little Boats; Walter Lord; The Miracle of Dunkirk; Douglas Bader; Karl Heinz-Frieser; The Blitzkrieg Legend; Hermann Göring; Albert Kesslring; Wolfram von Richthofen; General Harold Alexander; Admiral Sir Dudley Pound; Winston Churchill; General von Bock;
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By Paul FordyceThat well known left newspaper, the Guardian, used a word normally forbidden in its pages. The word’s a Christian word. Especially known to be associated with Jesus Christ. That word is miracle. But the story of what happened at Dunkirk forced the hand of the reviewer Mark Kermode, in his review of Christopher Nolan’s 2017 movie Dunkirk. The reviewer tells us:
Intertitles tell us that British and French troops are “hoping for deliverance… for a miracle”, while the Bergman-esque spectre of death haunts the beach. Entitled “The Mole” (after the jutting stone and wood structure from which marine evacuation beckons),
The actual unspoken words that appear on the screen are:
The enemy have driven the British and the French Armies to the Sea.
Trapped at Dunkirk, they await their fate.
Hoping for Deliverance.
For a Miracle.
As I told you at the beginning of the last programme, the Cambridge Dictionary defines a miracle in these terms:
An unusual and mysterious event that is thought to have been caused by a god because it does not followthe usual laws of nature.
Was the escape of the British Army and a significant part of the French Army trapped at Dunkirk, a miracle from God? I’ll tell you the facts and you decide for yourself.
Tag words: Christopher Nolan; Dunkirk; Blitzkrieg; Operation Dynamo; British Expeditionary Force;Jesus Christ; General Sir Edmund Ironsides; Chief of the Imperial General Staff; CIGS; King George VI; Exodus; Parting of the Red Sea; Quran; Koran; Captain William Tennant; Vice-Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsay; Stuka; Ju 87; Captain E.F. Wharton; the Little Boats; Walter Lord; The Miracle of Dunkirk; Douglas Bader; Karl Heinz-Frieser; The Blitzkrieg Legend; Hermann Göring; Albert Kesslring; Wolfram von Richthofen; General Harold Alexander; Admiral Sir Dudley Pound; Winston Churchill; General von Bock;