“as a Brit at Dunkirk”
Not so much, as the Nazi war machine deliberately let them run away. I always wondered why they never got any credit for it. Probably because at that point it was already decided that Germany’d be firebombed to hell, and no soft feelings could get in the way.
The reason that the Germans failed to stop the British leaving Dunkirk (from a land perspective) is that the British has just counterattacked and badly mauled Rommel’s 7th Panzer Division at Arras. Add to this fierce British resistance at several other ports and towns.
The Nazis did not want to have to enter Dunkirk and take the town street by street, house by house. As we would have inflicted serious losses on them.
It is a myth that the British ‘fled’ like Usain Bolt on a good day to Dunkirk. The British put up legendary stands at Boulogne, Arras, St Valery, Calais. Inflicting heavy casualties and allowing many British and Allied soldiers to escape.