Nine Days Wonder: The Operation Dynamo

First edition.  xvi, 58, 5pp, with numerous black and white plate illustrations at rear.  Blue cloth-covered boards, blind stamped on front panel, gilt stamped on spine.  12mo.  Cloth a little worn, rubbed at corners and spine ends, lightly so on edges and around spine.  A little toning to text block edges and first and last few leaves.  In its original worn, chapped and marked dust wrapper, portion of rear panel absent, price clipped.

A short account of the last nine days in the campaign in Belgium, ending at Dunquerque (Dunkirk) – the scene of the improbable and now legendary rescue, by a fleet of thousands of small boats, trawlers, tourist ships and others, of the troops of the British Expeditionary Force, despite the best endeavours of the German Werhrmacht and the Luftwaffe, followed in some of Masefield’s poems.  Masefield (1878-1967) was a poet and writer, Poet Laureate from 1930 to his death.