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Duty Calls: Dunkirk by James Holland

It is Friday 24th May, 1940 and 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?

Duty Calls: Dunkirk gives a vivid and personal account of one of the Allied Forces earliest and greatest defeats of the Second World War. Most of the talk around Dunkirk centres around the heroic efforts of private and commercial boats in rescuing the British Expeditionary Force from the port, with little being said on the harrowing journey the BEF had to make to get to it in the first place. This book is different; it follows the journey the soldiers make from Flanders to Dunkirk. It is a memorable tale, placing readers into the horror and uncertainty of the early days of the Second World War.

RRP $21.00
Published by Penguin Group under the Puffin title

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