Word: dunkirk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bugles. They tell of bloody and costly battles in wars over the centuries: Courtrai, Passendale, Ypres ("Wipers" to the Tommy of World War I), and Armentiéres (whose "Mademoiselle" was invented to wipe out the memory of grimmer realities). In World War II, the tragedy and heroism of Dunkirk were played out on a Flemish beach...
...effort to save the North had been abandoned. It was too late. At the Pentagon the discussion had turned to another kind of effort: how to evacuate the 300,000 non-Communist residents and troops in the area. This would require some 130 ships, would rival Dunkirk in its drama and scope...
...Majesty's yacht Britannia. As it steamed slowly toward the Pool of London, it was escorted by warships of the Royal Navy and the greatest flotilla of private craft since Britain's yachtsmen set forth in a body to rescue the British forces on the beach at Dunkirk. Some fresh from their beds in pajamas and trenchcoats, others stiff with long waiting, the observers on shore pinched each other at the sight of any moving figure on the yacht's deck and called excitedly: "There she is! There...
...Long Way Home. In Dunkirk, France, after a night's drinking. Englishmen Frank Lee and Eric Pape finally woke up, discovered that they had taken the wrong train, crossed the English Channel on a ferry instead of commuting home to their London suburb...
Little Boy Lost, based on Marghanita Laski's bestselling novel, is about a U.S. war correspondent who is forced by the German advance to flee through Dunkirk, leaving his wife and newborn son in Paris. The wife is tortured and killed by the Gestapo. When peace comes, the correspondent goes back to look for his son. At an orphanage near Paris, he finds a French boy, about seven years old, who may or may not be his son. The picture tells the story of the father's outward attempts to determine whether...