Dunkirk, Kitchener had just come to his senses.
A few days ago, he thought Dunkirk was about to fall and faced a difficult choice: leave or stay?
If he left, he had boasted before his soldiers that he would stay here forever and die with Dunkirk, breaking this promise would mean losing face as the Marshal of the Army.
If he stayed, once Dunkirk fell, he would become a prisoner of the Germans, being the first Marshal captured by the German Army.
"Damn Shire," Kitchener fumed, "this is what Shire wanted to see, so he resisted the pressure and did not send reinforcements! He is the disgrace of the Allies, the destroyer of the coalition, I must bring him to the military court!"
At this moment, a staff officer excitedly reported, "Your Excellency, Shire has taken Mezieres!"
"Idiot!" Kitchener roared, "what's the use of taking Mezieres? I need him to reinforce Dunkirk, nothing is more important than Dunkirk!"
