Dunkirk by Sinclair McKay

Author:Sinclair McKay
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: MBI
Published: 2014-09-07T04:00:00+00:00

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‘The Hour Is Too Solemn’

28 May 1940

For an invading land army, the line between aggression and brutality must always be dangerously thin; for any commanding officer, the job is to hold in check the triumphalist violence of his fighting men. And in 1940, the international conventions and rules attached to warfare that we know now were already in existence. The second of the Geneva Conventions, concerning the treatment of prisoners of war, had been ratified in 1929. Such prisoners were entitled to be treated with honour and respect. These things were understood very well, by the Allies and the Germans alike.

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