A very old-fashioned adventure book, but none the worse for that. It's easy and entertaining to read for all ages, and while fiction it's a reasonably accurate representation of a real event and I think does a good job of communicating to the reader the atmosphere and attitudes of that period, as well as having credible sympathetic characters to carry the story along. Also, unusually for a book of this nature, it has a young girl as one of the principal protagonists. Clearly it's aimed at a younger audience so we're spared graphic depictions of the horrors of war, but it nevertheless maintains a narrative tension that gives a small taste of what it must have been like for those that participated in the actual event.
I'm not sure why this book is illustrated on Amazon by an American pilot and air crew loading fuel tanks onto a P51 (I think), when it's entirely about a British infantryman's experiences of the Dunkirk evacuation and its aftermath, but that's a minor criticism!
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When the evacuation was over, the guns stopped, and there was silence over Dunkerque. They were marooned in an occupied country with only a young French girl and a dog to help them.
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