My parents’ Dunkirk spirit is probably why I exist

As the British Expeditionary Force was being defeated in France and it looked like the end of the world, did my tyrannical father decide he might want a child after all?I went to see Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk without thinking. “Dunkirk” is a name I have always lived with. As a child in England, while the war ended, my family fed me “Dunkirk spirit” as if it had been the turning point of the conflict, as well as an exemplary display of humble English greatness. I h