... DUNKIRK AND BURMA QEFORE THE DAWN, by Brigadier Sir J. Smyth, V.C. D (Cassell. 25s.), which is a well-written account of wo famous retreats Dunkirk and Burma is in a sense self-justification. In military history, probably no other -etreats called for ...

... Jewish Dunkirk The Exodus from Denmark in October 1943 On such a scale were events played out in Europe in the Second World War and so vast was the canvas, that many an episode of significance remains to be properly recorded. The rescue of the Danish ...

... CHESTER WILMOT'S SEVEN HUNDRED PAGES A Brilliant Survey of the European Scene from Dunkirk to the Present Time -By VERNON FANE FROM its opening sentence, that in the summer of 1942 400,000,000 people in Europe lay under the yoke of German rule, to its ...

... for valour there is not one bestowed for honesty. Some such tribute is due to Sir Michael Balcon for his epic production, Dunkirk-- written by Messrs. David Divine and W. P. Lipscomb and directed by Leslie Norman. The truth is not always pleasant, but ...

... remains anybody's guess. Almost from the start, it became a forlorn hope. Moore lived long enough to know that he had won his Dunkirk, and it was an achievement as great as Wolfe's on the heights of Abraham. This is a well-written, enthrallingand tragical ...

... last war. First, THE NINE DAYS OF DUNKIRK (Faber. 21s.), in which long, absorbing and scrupulously documented volume Mr. David Divine has examined the facts of the 1940 campaign which culminated on the beaches of Dunkirk. In his study the writer has stated ...

... Shetland starting point, Chisholm's story moves back, then returns to finish where it began. A regular soldier, wounded in the Dunkirk retreat, he had been found unfit for active service thereafter, he found himself embarked on the hush-hush adven ture of ...

... experiences we had all, in some degree, gone through. The rigours of bombing, the dread of family loss, the noble agony of Dunkirk we knew what they meant. The American tribute to British courage was a friendly gesture to each one of us and, where the facts ...

... the counter of a South London chain-store, when she met her French husband, Lieutenant Etienne Szabo, in the summer after Dunkirk. He was killed at Alamein and she became a secret agent. After two missions to France, acting as liaison with Resistance groups ...

... press the animals to teach mankind. Rayner Unwin's THE DEFEAT OF JOHN HAWKINS (Penguin Books. 5s.) is the story of the naval Dunkirk of the sixteenth century, when, in 1568 at San Juan de Ulua in the Gulf of Mexico, John Hawkins's third slaving expedition ...

... CINEMA RECENT PRODUCTIONS DUNKIRK (Empire) is a gallant but unsuccessful effort to re-create a tremendous moment of history. It tries to show how the remnants of the British Expeditionary Force were scooped off the French beaches in the May of 1940, and ...

... (Hutchinson. 35s.), is written as a clear-cut narra tive of the great years of 1939-45, taking us from the shadow of defeat at Dunkirk, through the time when we fought alone, through the strengthening grand alliance, to the final moments of victory in West ...