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...tick. And sooner or later, since he is writing an autobiography, Churchill is brought back to the problem of talking about himself. He has a lot to mention and not much to say. As an officer in a camouflage outfit, Churchill was on the beaches at Dunkirk-he later painted the scene-but his description is insipid. His family thought little of his love affairs -they called it "playing the ass in the bulrushes"-and he went on to have four wives. His family thought equally little of his desire to become a painter-they called it "playing...
...with anxious courtiers. Not even Aragon's hero, a musketeer who dotes on his horse and his fancy uniform, matters much. The scenes are the thing-scenes of moiling confusion and moral disintegration, observed with the sharp eye and tongue of a poet who was a soldier at Dunkirk and returned from England to fight until he was captured on the day before the fall of France...
...SANDS OF DUNKIRK-(319 pp.)-Richard Collier-Dutton...
...evacuation from Dunkirk of 338,226 British and French troops, soundly whipped by the German army but rescued by an improvised flotilla of 1,200 ships under week-long bombardment, was closer to triumph than to tragedy. By rights, the saga of Dunkirk deserves a Homer, but even in the jabbing, boilerplate prose of British Journalist Richard Collier, a reliable but uninspired artisan of "The Day That" books (The City That Would Not Die-TIME, Jan. II, 1960), the story vividly recalls the curious, human mosaic of heroic and horrifying experience that was pre-Hiroshima warfare...
...Gort's army was in full retreat from Hitler's Panzers toward the Channel ports when Anthony Eden, Winston Churchill's Secretary of State for War, gave the only command possible -the evacuation of the army from Dunkirk, the last northern French port left in Allied hands. Ironically, it was called Operation Dynamo. At first, the job seemed impossible, and officers gloomily reckoned on saving no more than 45,000 men. German bombers had ruined Dun kirk's seven modern dock basins. Because the beaches were shallow, small craft were needed, and the navy...