Lizzie Harrison
Assignment 1: Model A2: The Battle of Dunkirk
. Source A, B and C are useful when finding out what the Battle of Dunkirk was like because they are three different accounts of a personal experience of Dunkirk. The first source, source A is useful because it describes the evacuation of men from the beaches of Dunkirk back to Britain. The author of source A describes it as a "terrible night for there was hardly any army and the ones they did have were useless". This suggests that the situation was very disorganised as they would have been retreating from constant German attacks. The phrases "rabble" suggests disorganisation and "the odds and ends of an army" implies something rather dreadful has happened to the men. For example they may have been hit by German dive bombers and so consequently many troops have been split up from one another in the rush to retreat from the Germans and mixed with the French and Belgium. The source is written by Thomas Kerr who was one of the naval officers sent to organise the evacuation, so therefore he should know what was actually going on. From the source it appears that he was pessimistic about the evacuation.
Assignment 1: Model A2: The Battle of Dunkirk
. Source A, B and C are useful when finding out what the Battle of Dunkirk was like because they are three different accounts of a personal experience of Dunkirk. The first source, source A is useful because it describes the evacuation of men from the beaches of Dunkirk back to Britain. The author of source A describes it as a "terrible night for there was hardly any army and the ones they did have were useless". This suggests that the situation was very disorganised as they would have been retreating from constant German attacks. The phrases "rabble" suggests disorganisation and "the odds and ends of an army" implies something rather dreadful has happened to the men. For example they may have been hit by German dive bombers and so consequently many troops have been split up from one another in the rush to retreat from the Germans and mixed with the French and Belgium. The source is written by Thomas Kerr who was one of the naval officers sent to organise the evacuation, so therefore he should know what was actually going on. From the source it appears that he was pessimistic about the evacuation.