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DUNKIRK AND BURMA

... 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 ...

Published: Saturday 30 November 1957
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 314 | Page: 29 | Tags: Review 

JEWISH DUNKIRK: The Exodus from Denmark in October 1943

... 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 ...

Published: Saturday 01 October 1955
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 902 | Page: 36 | Tags: Review 

CHESTER WILMOT'S SEVEN HUNDRED PAGES: A Brilliant Survey of the European Scene from Dunkirk to the Present Time

... 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 ...

Published: Saturday 02 February 1952
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1718 | Page: 38 | Tags: Review 

FROM BALLET to BATTLE: Diaghilev, Dictator of Ballet: Two New Travel Books: The Epic of Dunkirk: and a War Thriller

... 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 ...

Published: Saturday 14 December 1940
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1722 | Page: 30 | Tags: Review 

ESCAPE TO TEXAS: A Best-Selling Novel and Its Brooklyn Author; A Memoir of Dunkirk, and Other Books Briefly ..

... 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 ...

Published: Saturday 09 August 1947
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 881 | Page: 30 | Tags: Review 

VARIETY for your BOOKSHELF: The Will-o'-the-Wisp Barrie; A Maternal View of Keats; More Blitz Literature; ..

... 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 ...

Published: Saturday 19 April 1941
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1851 | Page: 32 | Tags: Review 

Master Mariner

... 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 ...

Published: Wednesday 05 January 1949
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 24 | Page: 22 | Tags: Review 

Courage on the beaches

... 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 ...

Published: Wednesday 09 April 1958
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1242 | Page: 39 | Tags: Review 

Myself at the Pictures: A Protest

... 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 ...

Published: Wednesday 31 December 1941
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1251 | Page: 6 | Tags: Review 

Russian Opera: Mussorgsky's Sorotchintsi Fair at the Savoy Theatre

... 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 ...

Published: Wednesday 15 October 1941
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 260 | Page: 9 | Tags: Review 

RETREAT INTO VICTORY

... 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 ...

Published: Saturday 29 July 1961
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 360 | Page: 29 | Tags: Review 

Books

... 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 ...

Published: Sunday 01 August 1943
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1625 | Page: 64 | Tags: Review