147. Dunkirk - Day Seven

WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk

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🗓️ 1 June 2020

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

As clouds lift over Dunkirk the evacuation has to be suspended during daylight hours. Meanwhile the men on the perimeter resort to desperate measures to hold up the German advance.

Al and James are joined by US military historian Michael Neiberg to look at Dunkirk and the fall of France from an American perspective.

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0:00.0	Attention attention, action this day June 1st 1940 is what we are talking about here
0:13.7	and we have ways of making you talk in our Donkirk 8 days that changed the world special.
0:19.2	I've moved on for most important week in history I think 8 days that changed the world.
0:23.9	8 days in the world. I like that, that sounds good.
0:28.1	Of course we are recording this in advance by the way at Suite Listener and this morning
0:32.8	I woke to see James Holland rebuking a former French ambassador.
0:36.2	Oh dear, I'm Twitter.
0:38.6	What?
0:39.6	I mean talk about kind of old theories and enmities kind of still going on but from a French
0:46.9	ambassador as well, I mean dear me.
0:49.4	Well former, I mean someone then said maybe this is why is your next diplomat you know.
0:53.3	Because it wasn't my different magic that's what you're talking about.
0:56.6	I mean you know, the classic the English bugger offered left us in it.
1:00.9	Well we carried on fighting for three more weeks you know.
1:04.8	Well apart from that and then also returned.
1:07.8	Thank you very much.
1:09.0	And it's probably then you turn into a front-sauce or you know some UKIP I go really fucking
1:16.5	frogs.
1:17.5	Anyway.
1:18.5	I love the French.
1:20.5	I drive around in a French car.
1:21.7	I mean you know a really old one of that.
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