The “providential fog” that allowed General George Washington to save his army with a miraculous nighttime crossing over the East River while surrounded by the British; Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s astounding failure to destroy Union General George McClellan’s Federal Army during the Seven Days Battles. These are not only two instances where history is stranger than fiction, these are instances where God Himself appears to have intervened as a means to put his Master Plan back on track. Neither event, however, compares to Dunkirk.
After racking up a series of audaciously brilliant and historic European conquests, German warlord Adolf Hitler would eventually doom himself, and the country that allowed him to rise to power, through a series of strategic and tactical blunders that do not surprise anyone familiar with his paranoid, power-mad, megalomaniacal tendencies, which were only made worse by an increasing reliance on amphetamines. Each one of these disastrous errors (and thank heaven for all of them) fits well within his depraved persona … except for Hitler’s inexplicable decision not to forever finish off the British Army at Dunkirk.
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