Category: War Publisher: dpdotcom.com
Type: Fiction
Pages: 412
Copyright: Nov 2005
The German invasion of France and the Low Countries in the summer of 1940 caught the British Expeditionary Force by surprise. Prepared defences were soon over-run as the Nazi Blitzkrieg raced towards the coast. With their backs to the sea, 400,000 Allied troops were trapped. Their only escape via the French port of Dunkirk. This is the story of the men and women who rescued an army and turned the tide of World War Two. Heart-warming and compelling, this is a book that raises the spirits and begs the question could we ever do it again? The novel of the true story.
It was promising to be a fairly typical summer Sunday morning. The sky was leaden and low, the clouds racing towards the shore, and rain expected. But from her bedroom window on the third floor of a dilapidated Victorian seafront guesthouse Agnes saw something unexpected.
‘’Ere, love! You want to take a look at this.’ She turned to her husband who sat perched on the edge of the bed, ear strained to the wireless.
‘Shush, woman! Can’t you see the news is coming up?’
‘If you ask me, it looks like there’s some news coming up, right out here.’
What Agnes saw was a lone Hurricane, a single-seater fighter, trailing clouds of white glycol fumes and flying soundlessly and at considerable speed just a few feet above the sea. And it was heading, if not directly for their guesthouse, then certainly for the beach below.
Excerpt
Join the German Army and see the world.
Join the British Army and see the next.
The cheerful greeting had been sloshed in green paint across one of the few remaining walls on the seafront at Bray. The Padre shook his head and turned to look at the beach. There were significant differences between the beach at La Panne, the scene of his rescue, and the beach here at Bray. For one thing, the Germans had not been directing hoards of dive-bombers onto the beach at La Panne. That beach had been deserted. This one held countless disorganised and demoralised men. The carnage beggared all belief.
