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p2, ‘Dunkirk ... will do as a symbol of the transformation of a continent.
In 70 years the town/city was bombarded three times byGerman guns, in 1871, in 1917, and ... in 1940. Now [late 20th century]the dangers it faces, such as they are [as Europe continues with its longest period of peace since nations were invented] it came from prosperity, from a frontier that nobody bothers to defend, beside a channel under which they dug a tunnel [completed 1994].
p2, ‘Dunkirk ... will do as a symbol of the transformation of a continent.
In 70 years the town/city was bombarded three times byGerman guns, in 1871, in 1917, and ... in 1940. Now [late 20th century]the dangers it faces, such as they are [as Europe continues with its longest period of peace since nations were invented] it came from prosperity, from a frontier that nobody bothers to defend, beside a channel under which they dug a tunnel [completed 1994].