Books
April• 2018 | 121RD Recommends
Dunkirk Arthur D. Divine
(ALLEN & UNWIN)T
his reprint of Arthur D. Divine’s
memoir of the events of the
Dunkirk evacuation in 1940
holds weight, even among historians.
In 1940, Divine, a South African war
correspondent, crossed the English
Channel three times in a ten-metre
boat to rescue Allied troops stranded
at the French port. His first-hand
account of the human drama that
played out during this military
exercise formed the basis for the
script of the movieDunkirk.PHOTO: ISTOCKCOMPILED BY LOUISE WATERSON, VICTORIA POLZOT ANDMEANIEEGAN