Dunkirk Evacuation

One of the most interesting setting presented in 'Atonement' is the Dunkirk Evacuation. This was a real event that take place during the Second World War and McEwan make use of this event, to show or describe the felling or atmosphere in a situation like that. Above I will put a piece of a letter that a soldier wrote and a video to explain better this historical event.

From soldier Stevenson:
'It was the last few days of May 1940. I was fighting in Dunkirk, France to support the French from the German takeover. Unfortunately, things were in favour of the Germans. On 25^th March 1940, Four Hundred Thousand allied troops were trapped in a French port called Dunkirk. The fall of France was obvious. What was even worse was that Hitler’s tanks and troops were only 10 miles away. We only had a few days to escape from Dunkirk. The Germans were using Blitzkrieg Warfare, so if we didn’t think of something fast, we would be prey to the Germans. We had no shelter and no supplies. We had guns and tanks but they had very little ammunition left in them. To make it worse, the German Luftwaffe was constantly attacking us. Our only option was to evacuate.'