Return via Dunkirk

Mr 'Demetriou' seems to be having one of his oppositional phases again. I shall just have to cope with it. But I'd like to pursue for a moment the question of Dunkirk, raised in my MoS column on Sunday. Among my childhood reading was an austere drab volume, printed on coarse paper under the 'War Economy Standard', called 'Battle Dress'. Its author's name was given as 'Gun Buster'. This seems to have been the pseudonym of a Captain in the Royal Artillery called John Austin, though there may...