... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... this play, which was written during the war by a serving soldier, was somebody the author had met along the rocky road from Dunkirk to the Sangro. Reading the note, one feared the worst. Thomas, wrote Stevenson to Barrie of a Thrums worthy, affects me ...