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Duty Calls
Dunkirk
- Author: James Holland
- Category: Fiction Commercial Historical Young Adult
- Publisher: Puffin
- Pub date: 2 June 2011
- Length: 352 pages
About Duty Calls
Friday 24th May, 1940
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?
About the Author
James Holland was born in Salisbury and studied at Durham University. He has written for a number of newspapers and magazines. He is the prolific author of FORTRESS MALTA: An Island Under Siege, 1940-43, TOGETHER WE STAND: North Africa, 1942-43 and ITALY’S SORROW: A Year of War, 1944-45, and two novels, THE BURNING BLUE and A PAIR OF SILVER WINGS. He has also written and presented a film, ‘Victory in Europe’. Married with a son, he lives near Salisbury.