dunkirk has been called the triumph of man over the machine.e domination of the air over the desolate beach while ground forces continued a stubborn rearguard action. [gunfire, plane drone] ♪ narrator: british ships, cruisers, destroyers, yachts, paddle boats, anything that could float crossed the channel and evacuated some 350,000 british and french troops back to england. for the british were determined to save their men. ♪ narrator: here in the wreckage was the story of the epic evacuation. men walked into the sea and swam to their rescuers. they couldn't take their weapons, trucks, tanks, or guns, but men were saved to fight again. /-- having slashed through belgium and holland, german armies fanned out across france. treachery and confidence had bit -- doomed the nation that only a decade ago had been leader of europe. now the campaign mounted in theory as france crumbled. -- fury as france crumbled. [gunfire and explosions] plane drone] narrator: this was rouen. ♪ narrator: paris had been evacuating its children. there was talk of defendi

we had dunkirk, the so-called miracle. if we had not had the 21 miles of the english channel, they would have had scotland. they may not have fallen as quickly as the brits. the wall would have been built, some kind of wall anyway. but the english channel saved us. no one was immune. blitzkrieg was fantastic. it worked. it was the most effective form of warfare anybody had seen. so, yes, the french were defeated. now, in 1941, when sumner jackson became involved helping downed allied airmen, when he became a resistant, though he didn't join the resistance, even in 1944, on the eve of d-day, there was a very small percentage of french people who were in the resistance. after the war, the mythology, the popular stories are that everybody i knew was in the resistance. it's not true. it's absolutely not true. there is a very large grey area that people occupied during occupation. they did not want to actively support the nazis, especially when things were going in the germans' way at the beginning of the war. but even in the e

much, but what really struck me was the bravery of the ordinarily english and british men and women, dunkirk beaches and the big ships couldn't get in, the sea was too shallow, and the admiralty broadcast and said anything that sales, get in it and come and get the boys. it is still a story that moves you. i cried when i wrote it. i had to put my own characters into that situation. we're talking about two intertwined families in yorkshire, your roane county. —— your own county. and in a way people are reading this because they enjoyed the story of a family, downton abbey style, that is remote from their own experience, a different family from those people. why do people find it so fascinating? people want to know about the past, as i said in the beginning. i think it is a bit of escapism. they will do know, what was england like, then? in this book it is 1938 and there was a great deal of talk about why isn't what winston churchill the prime minister and why is neville chamberlain looking for appeasement? and the thing i hadn't realised until i did the research was that hitler really was fas

rain crossinge into shady side, and that is going into annapolis and dunkirk. it extends all the down to st. mary's and calvert counties. the bulk of the heaviest is pushing out of here right now. we will be left with showers continuing until about 9:00 a.m. until mid to late morning. clearing out of woodstock, harrisonburg, winchester, about two hours away. by 8:30, 9:00, things should be clearing away. of snow in inches higher elevations tonight. keep that in mind. 42 by 9:00. this evening, temperatures will drop in a hurry, and this is what we will be left with for tomorrow. starting off with windchill in the 20's, feeling like around freezing tomorrow afternoon. a very cold day coming our way tomorrow. we will talk about the weekend in 10 minutes. jamie: we have not seen many big issues as far as crashes. we have seen wet roads. you are definitely going to want to use caution. not many places that you need to leave extra time. x, you are able to get by an accident, accident coming in southbound on the george washington parkway. 16 miles per hour you drop do

stretching right now along interstate 95 from stafford to fredericksburg, dunkirk, brandywine, those west have gotten a chance to dry out and i think that interns of chances for rain today, it will stay east of 95. look at the snow through new throughcontinuing their our area. we will be seeing sunshine and road conditions drying out. real quick, look at the ten-day forecast to the evening. that's next for us after that big cold wave comes down on friday. around the beltway and we of course have delays due to the volume and the wet pavement. hands are full right now with a crash involving a pedestrian at somerville drive. police are on the scene of the crash traveling to and from derwent's. heads up. 290 five coming north of the capital beltway we are seeing delays slowing your role from the beltway towards the 11th street bridge. a 13 minute commute right now northbound on 295. 95 in maryland coming south, a crash on the mid--- on the ramp heading west, follow police direction to get by. on the outer loop coming south from 236 towards 95, a crash on that ramp with police still on th

on the east side, headed to areas like annapolis and dunkirk, we have been tracking this all morninghat yoca you when it will be moving. a.m., aboutround 11 five hours away or so. by lunchtime, a bigger part of the rain will be done. breezy to windy, that southwest wind, temperatures easily carry into the 50's and into the 60's by lunchtime. 1:00, and with the warmth there could be an isolated thunderstorm here with a rumble of thunder coming out of your window. one thing that i wanted to show is the area here that i have shaded in where the clouds could hold longer today. early on thursday morning, the next chance for rain north and west of d.c.. theflakes mixing in with rain, that is what is going to be falling, road temperatures way warm. frederick on thursday morning, there could be a bit in the way fall early before we switch over to all rain. windy on friday, cooler weekend as we bring in 2017, highs in the 40 crop -- 40's across the area. if you are looking towards the forecast, jamie? jamie: i can't believe it. earlier today, it would be near 64 and i said -- is that a joke?

we had dunkirk, the so-called miracle.the brits. the wall would have been built, some kind of wall anyway. but the english channel saved us. no one was immune. blitzkrieg was fantastic. it worked. it was the most effective form of warfare anybody had seen. so, yes, the french were defeated. now, in 1941, when sumner jackson became involved helping downed allied airmen, when he became a resistant, though he didn't join the resistance, even in 1944, on the eve of d-day, there was a very small percentage of french people who were in the resistance. after the war, the mythology, the popular stories are that everybody i knew was in the resistance. it's not true. it's absolutely not true. there is a very large grey area that people occupied during occupation. they did not want to actively support the nazis, especially when things were going in the germans' way at the beginning of the war. but even in the eve of liberation, there were still very few frenchmen and women involved in the resistance. when they were, they were violent

the decision to fight on against the germans after dunkirk was as much an emotional decision as anything. certainly it didn't seem to have much rationality as a military decision at the time. so we can be thankful that churchill wore his heart on his sleeve in the extraordinary way that he did. thank you very much indeed. [ applause ] david tells me we've got 15 minutes for q&a. it doesn't necessarily have to be just about this subject. obviously do ask whatever you like. john? >> andrew, thank you for coming. just to pick up on that last point of the pbp, clearly churchill was a very emotional man, tearful, and laughed. but by the time he had his first stroke in 1949 and then in '53, the sense i get is that there were times when it was sort of unprovoked. you can understand circumstances at a funeral when one starts to tear up. but the notion you walk to the front door at chart well and start tearing up. one would not expect that that's more a feature of pbp or pseudo bull bar palace it is. but on times it is totally unexpected for someone to be teempl. >> how interesting. i haven't hea

we had dunkirk, the so-called miracle. if we had not had the 21 miles of the english channel, they would have had scotland. maybe they would not have defeat the scots quite as easy as the brits. [laughter] anyway, the wall would have been built quite quickly, some kind of wall anyway. sorry. but the english channel saved us. no one was immune. blitzkrieg was fantastic. it worked. it was the most violent, modern, deceptive form of warfare anybody had seen. so yes, the french were defeated. now, in 1941, when sumner jackson became involved helping downed allied airmen, when he became the resistance, even if he did not join, he was almost 1944, and did not have any kind of connection to any population opposed to german role, let alone becoming part of the resistance. even in 1944, on the eve of d-day, there was a very small percentage of french people who were in the resistance. after the war, the mythology, the popular stories are that everybody -- my dad, uncle, everyone i knew was in the resistance -- it is not true. it's

first up, christopher nolan is back with dunkirk the world war two film.ht rises, interstellar. this film looks incredible. i saw a full imax trailer for it before i saw star wars rogue one the other night, and it looks insane. over 100 minutes of the movie are going to be in 70mm film and this movie opens up on july 21st, 2017, and it's going to be awesome. can't wait to see that. next up is justice league, you just saw that in the last clip we bumped in, opens on november 17th, zack snyder. i was a big fan of batman vs superman, i know that it was critically demolished, but i loved the ultimate edition of the movie, it's a fantastic well made superhero film. this looks great, i love the casting here for flash of ezra miller, n there as well. that opens up in novembethe 17th. next up is a little film called guardians of the galaxy volume 2, opening on may 5th, 2017. chris pratt, zoe saldana, bradley cooper, vin diesel's playing little groot. i'm very excited about this movie. i loved the first one. it looks fantastic. the soundtrack with a leading star on

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