Ride Out the Storm [Paperback]

John Harris (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1, 2001

The allies, faced with a shameful defeat, are trapped between the onslaught of the mighty German army and the tumult of the ocean waves. Those that do not die face capture and surrender to the Nazis. But only nine days later more than a quarter of a million men have been rescued, placed safely on the shores of England, and saved by an amazing assorted flotilla of barges, tugs, rowing boats and dinghy's. This is the incredible story of a mass exodus across the Channel. John Harris tells the miraculous story of Dunkirk.

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'A master of the gripping adventure yarn' -- The Daily Telegraph

About the Author

John Harris was born in 1916. He authored the best-selling The Sea Shall Not Have Them and wrote under the pen names of Mark Hebden and Max Hennessy. He was a sailor, airman, a journalist, travel courier, cartoonist and a history teacher. During the Second World War he served with two air forces and two navies. After turning to full-time writing, Harris wrote adventure stories and created a sequence of crime novels around the quirky fictional character Chief Inspector Pel. A master of war and crime fiction, his enduring fictions are versatile and entertaining.

Product Details

• Paperback: 334 pages
• Publisher: House of Stratus (January 1, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0755102347
• ISBN-13: 978-0755102341
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.5 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,041,469 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Jumbled Story of a Rout to the Coast and Miraculous Evacuation, February 25, 2009

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Mouthpiece "ilike2fish" (upstate NY) - See all my reviews

I have to say I enjoyed this one but to start with there are too many characters with too many vignettes. Hard to follow until some of the characters are killed off. If Harris had stuck to just a few men and women from each group (Royal Army, Wehrmacht, RAF, Luftwaffe, captain of small boat attempting rescue, French civilians caught in middle, etc.) it would have flowed more smoothly. Story of the British Expeditionary Force and its retreat to the northern coast of France in 1940, hoping to be evacuated across the Channel to England to fight another day. Many adventures are had by all the characters in the collection of vignettes. Reminds me somewhat of an Arthur Hailey novel with parallel plots colliding at the end.