Dunkirk - A Great Deliverance or Great Disaster

"Dunkirk is a great salvation and a great calamity" - (AJP Taylor) Is there sufficient evidence in documents A to F to support this interpretation? AJP Taylor quoted this in his book "British History" published in 1965. That said Dunkirk is a wonderful savior; it required how the army was saved and successfully delivered in the progress of the German army. But this disaster refers to the details of more disguised Dunkirk, like a huge military defeat, thousands of equipment, two million prisoners captured by Germans.

Information sources F and G have a very balanced view of Dunkirk's evacuation. Source F was written by A. J. P Taylor; in this source he provided evidence to support his explanation that "Dunkirk is a great rescue and a catastrophe". "Success surpasses all expectations, almost the entire BEF was saved." The action "rescue" is also said to be "very good" in BEF. It is "disaster" to lose that "equipment" and all of the many other things like airplanes and boats. He used the facts behind, so the source is accurate. Richard Holmes talked about expectations of failure saying "Evacuation will be a miracle", but he also talked about the great resolve of the military and sailors, talked with the witnesses to support his view, and the incident . Make a very reliable and accurate explanation

Source 8 is an artist Dunkirk withdrew from the official fighting writer Charles Kundol. Source 8 has sufficient evidence to support this explanation: "Dunkirk is a great relief and a great failure." Source 8 shows how to save and fail. The source was a painting by Charles Condel and he showed that many boats and people arrived at these ships, but at the same time showed many explosions and confusion. The salvation of this picture is the fact that so many units came aboard ships and survived. The disaster of this picture is that so many people are dying on the beach and the ship is burning. However, as the painter can not paint on the beach, this source can not be completely reliable, he is either a distant or a picture he remembers during the day.