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Corporal 'Tubby' Binns:
What about all of this? Charles Foreman:
Stupidity. Everybody saying that war was so terrible it couldn't happen again. And shoving our heads in the sand, like a lot of ostriches. Well, the Germans didn't think that way. To them, war meant guns or butter. They chose guns. We chose butter. No, you can't blame the Army. They had what we gave them - last war weapons, last war methods. This is the result
What about all of this? Charles Foreman:
Stupidity. Everybody saying that war was so terrible it couldn't happen again. And shoving our heads in the sand, like a lot of ostriches. Well, the Germans didn't think that way. To them, war meant guns or butter. They chose guns. We chose butter. No, you can't blame the Army. They had what we gave them - last war weapons, last war methods. This is the result
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What caused all this
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Stupidity
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Everybody saying the war was so damnable it couldn't happen again
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shoving our heads in the sand like a lot of ostriches
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Well the Germans didn't think that way
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To them war meant guns or butter
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They chose guns
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We chose butter
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No you can't blame the army
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They had what we gave them last war weapons last war methods
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This is the result
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Movie Summary
A dramatization of the British Expeditionary Force's 1940 retreat to the beaches of France and the extraordinary seaborne evacuation that saved it from utter destruction by Nazi Germany.
Actors
Charles Foreman
