Dunkirk and the Battle of Britain Essay

showtimes A, B and C all give information about what happened at the passage of arms of Dunkirk and about the evacuation. All three sources were written by British batch which means that the sources could be one-sided or contain incorrect information.Source A was written by Commander Thomas Kerr, a nautical officer sent to organise the evacuation. Since the ocean officer is British we raise speculate that the source is biased. Thomas Kerr starts off by labeling What a terrible night that was, for we had got hold of the odds and ends of an army, not the fighting soldiers.- this suggests to us that it was a horrible night, the soldiers they had got hold of were like the leftovers from the battle, they were depressed, hungry and they had low morale we know that this could be true because in the DVD we saw in class called The Finest Hour, a documentary about the evacuation of Dunkirk from a BBC television series, we see soldiers like Peter Vaux who hadnt eaten for 5 geezerhood a nd was very tired. This source attests us that they werent fighting soldiers which we can say is true because if all the suggestions above are true, we can truly cogitate that the soldiers werent ready to fight.Thomas Kerr goes on to say There were scarcely all officers, and the few present were useless- this implies that there were hardly any officers left because they could have been killed or captured during the evacuation, and for the ones that were their they were probably so taken aback by the events going on that they could no longer instruct. It could also tell us that the officers there were tired or injured, so they couldnt do much. This could be biased because Thomas Kerr could be trying to make us think that the officers were useless to try and make him or other nautical commanders look good.Thomas Kerr then says but our promise of arctic, and the sight of our naval uniforms, resorted some order to the rabble- this tells us that the navy blue was promising the sol diers safety and that their glorious uniforms resorted some order to the rabble, this can be seen as biased because Thomas Kerr is making us think that the navy was powerful and aphorism it as if though the navy were the leaders, he himself is a part of the navy and just wants to make them look superior and heroic. Thomas Kerr lastly says Their religion in the navy was pathetic we could only do our best.- this suggests that the soldiers didnt truly believe in the navy that they thought of them as they did everyone else, it then suggests that they could only do their best.Overall, this source gives us a lot of information on what happened in the evacuation of Dunkirk although quite a bit of the information is biased, in favour of the British and the navy there is some truth in the source.