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... FROM BALLET to BATTLE -By Vernon Fane. Diaghilev, Dictator of Ballet Two New Travel Books The Epic of Dunkirk and a War Thriller IT might be necessary to be a balleto mane to reach the proper degree of excitement at the appearance of the LIFE OF DIAGHILEV ...
... Blake, telling the story of this young naval officer who survived Dunkirk but lost his life later in the war, uses Crosby's letters to build up a truly remarkable impression of the Dunkirk evacuation, remarkable because the atmo sphere is obviously authentic ...
... your BOOKSHELF -By Vernon Fane The W ill '0 'the- Wisp Barrie A Maternal View of Keats; More Blitz Literature; Masefield's Dunkirk and Two Jslovels WHATEVER Barrie's view might have been of this authorised biography of him, THE STORY OF J.M.B. (Peter Davies ...
... Master Mariner. By Leo Walmslev. (Collins gs. 6d.) A nice old-fashioned story of a drunkard who gets religion and is killed at Dunkirk. is ...
... cities, dog fights in the clouds, attacks on German ports, rail yards, hangars and troop formations, and the evacuation of Dunkirk which forms a spec tacular finale to the picture. These thrills form the background to the romantic, adven turous story of ...
... and conducted for the Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo earlier in the war he served in the French Army, was evacuated from Dunkirk. Kirsta, like Fistoulari, comes from Kiev, has designed for the stage and painted portraits in Russia, Germany and Austria ...
... gale and survivors from tor- pedoed ships, takes part in a Norway action, and is sunk in an air attack while evacuating from Dunkirk. So there is plenty of gripping action, with feminine background interest in Tony's W.V.S. mother, his M.O.I, sister,, and ...
... book. Why, for instance, did not the Wehrmacht set about the complete annihilation of the British Expeditionary Force at Dunkirk The real reason, says Major Shulman, lay in Hitler's supreme confidence in his ability to come to political terms with England ...
... front in wartime. Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon are still a pleasure to watch, and the gathering of the small ships for Dunkirk must still stir the heart a little, but, on the whole, it begins to feel as long, long ago as it always felt far, far away ...
... BONE (Faber. 8s. 6d.); a story of the British Expeditionary Force in France from December 1939 until the evacuation from Dunkirk in the last days of the following May. 1 he author, Mr. Anthony Rhodes, was a young officer in the Royal Engineers who was ...
... girls. How idyllic _ So to Calais or sea. They Uf J106 (meaning the Eastern motor- batteries and the Essen giants) beset Dunkirk and Calais in masses, shoot the two fortresses to atoms, and prepare the way for the world-famous collapse of the French Army ...
... THE war books, quite natur ally, continue to roll in. They cover all fronts from Burma to the English Channel and from Dunkirk to Rome. FIRST TIDE (Skeffington. 12S. 6d.) gives an account by Mr. Alan Melville, a B.B.C. War Correspondent, of D-Day, June ...