Dunkirk

[Spitfire]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1bl-AZNo3U&feature=relmfu

Very good TV drama on Dunkirk.

 

[Smithy]

Thanks for posting that mate!

Hadn't seen it and thoroughly enjoyed it :eusa_clap

 

[Two Types]

If you are interested in Dunkirk, you should read this book:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Dunkirk-The-They-Left-Behind/dp/1845299779/ref=tmm_pap_title_0

(I must admit to having a vested interest in this, as I am the author)

 

[Doc Average]

If you are interested in Dunkirk, you should read this book:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Dunkirk-The-They-Left-Behind/dp/1845299779/ref=tmm_pap_title_0

(I must admit to having a vested interest in this, as I am the author)

This'll be in my dad's Christmas stocking this year! A friend of his (his pipe-major in fact) was in the 51st Highland Division and was captured at Dunkirk.

Co-incidentally I just bought Blitz Kids the other day, mainly for the chapters on the RN and Merchant Navy. My grandad joined up when he was 16 in 1943 (my avatar shows him my back in 1944 when he'd just made Senior Rating). I think he was in the Merchant Navy too at some point after the war. He died in 1985 when I was 14, before I had any real chance to ask him what his life was like back then, so I bought Blitz Kids to fill in the blanks so to speak!

 

[Two Types]

Cheers. Once you've read it, I'd love to know your thoughts on 'Blitz Kids'. I thoroughly enjoyed writing the sections on the Merchant Navy since it was a subject I knew very little about.

As a result of my research, and telling my son about what I had found out, has influenced him and made him very keen on going to sea. He is spending the whole of next week at sea on a Sea Cadets training ship. That will either make him or break him!

If you are interested in getting copies of any of my other books (at a reduced rate), send me a PM.

 

[Doc Average]

Thanks, will do!

 

[Smithy]

If you are interested in Dunkirk, you should read this book:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Dunkirk-The-They-Left-Behind/dp/1845299779/ref=tmm_pap_title_0

(I must admit to having a vested interest in this, as I am the author)

Nothing wrong with a bit of harmless self-promotion!

I'll keep an eye out for the book.