Duty Calls: Dunkirk

by James Holland

Overview

'YOU WANTED TO SEE SOME ACTION - WELL YOU'RE GOING TO GET IT NOW. YOU'RE GOING TO GET IT NOW ALL RIGHT.'

Friday 24th May, 1940

Private Johnny Hawke, aged sixteen, awakens to artillery fire.

Hours later, Stukas scream down from the sky. Messerschmit fighters roar towards his regiment. Trucks burst into flames.

Now men and mules lay dead and dying, severed limbs twisted grotesquely as blood soaks the cobbled streets.

Young Private Hawke just wants to do his duty and serve his country. But as he - and his fellow soldiers - prepare to stop the German advance, there's only one question on everyone's lips.

HOW WILL THEY SURVIVE?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780141961125
Publisher:	Penguin Random House Children's UK
Publication date:	06/02/2011
Series:	Duty Calls
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	352
Sales rank:	266,266
File size:	3 MB
Age Range:	11 Years

About the Author

James Holland is an internationally acclaimed and award-winning historian, writer, and broadcaster. The author of a number of best-selling histories he has presented - and written - a large number of television programmes and series. He has a weekly Second World War podcast, We Have of Making You Talk, with Al Murray, and is Chair of the Chalke Valley History Festival. He is a research fellow at St Andrew's University.

Editorial Reviews

"Holland is a superb historian who knows his stuff."  —Daily Telegraph

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