... wife on completion-- my evening talk with you on paper, as he called it. Throughout his time of active service, through Dunkirk and through the years as C.I.G.S. when he was in daily touch with Churchill and accompanied him on all his missions, Alan ...

... well done. Those who remember Miss Edith Pargeter's im portant trilogy of novels about an English soldier from the days of Dunkirk to the final victory, will find something very different in this writer's new novel. By Firelight (Heinemann. ios. 6d.). This ...

... with the problem of our prisoners of war. Beginning with the dreary march back to Germany of British soldiers captured at Dunkirk, it studies the lives of a selected group of men during four years in a prison camp, and ends with their repatriation and ...

... ' 'Did Manton win easily?' 'Yes, ver.y easily by several lengths.' If a similar question were put to any of our seamen at Dunkirk, the day after the Grand Prix, 1 doubt whether they could have answered it satisfactorily While looking at two Maories in ...

... perplexed, bewildered and self-composed by turns. This one has a couple of sons old enough to be involved in the evacuation of Dunkirk. This enables Gabriel, the matriarchal heroine, to note the purple smudges under the eyes of the son who came back, and the ...

... plotted every exciting move in the Battle of the Atlantic. How she came to know the battlefields and progressive campaigns from Dunkirk through North Africa to Normandy and the break through into Germany, and is able to take her hero, Sergeant Jim Benison, so ...

... fined him ^2 ios A cheque and a stiff note from Flight-Lieut. Bader regretted his inability to attend, as he had had to go to Dunkirk. It would manifestly be an impertinence to start handing out decorations (referred to, in Bader lingo, as chest cabbage for ...

... Jack Warner) and a French woman (Miss Denise Grey). She was a lively girl, a fine athlete and a crack shot. Shortly after Dunkirk she met and married a young French officer (M. Alain Saury). Two years later he was killed. At twenty-two she was a widow ...

... dispel the unseemly legends which a later age, mistaking roughness for valour, wove round the true story of Jean Bart of Dunkirk. Blaclrwood gives, under the title of Western Wanderings, a picturesque account of the newest American railroad, the Texas ...

... each other, but later changes her mind. By that time her husband, Major Collyer invalided out for nervous disability after Dunkirk, and working as a journalist doubts his ability to give her a child, even under treatment from a medical psychiatrist. The ...

... to tell an interesting story. The author was a subaltern in the R.A.S.C. when he and others were captured not long before Dunkirk. He tells us that he began making these notes in 1940, and hoped that they would be published in 1 94 1, but found that the ...

... possible to say that Miss Runbeck avoids a cloying or sanctimonious note, and has paraphrased the personal stories, whether of Dunkirk or the London blitz, Pearl Harbour or some private miracle, in acceptable taste. Singing Coral (James Barrie. 12s. 6d.) is ...