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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> Apart from the local naval authorities at these ports whose responsibility it was to speed the craft on their way their departure went unnoticed except perhaps by the odd stroller who might at that moment have been gazing out to sea. But since normal access to the seafronts of our southern coastal towns and resorts had for long been severely restricted for security reasons it is unlikely that there were many civilian onlookers. Few could have guessed that the little flotilla was about to make history. Since the previous September when the second world conflict had begun little action had taken place on land until April 1940. Then what the cynics had begun to dub the ‘phoney war’ burst into savage life when German forces suddenly overran Denmark and invaded Norway. A series of military catastrophes then befell the western Allies in quick succession. An Anglo-French expeditionary force hastily assembled and despatched to the aid of the embattled Norwegians met with little but disaster. (LL)