GHOSTS OF DUNKIRK: The Forgotten Heroes of World War II, Dedicated to The Queen's Royal Regiment & All Members of The BEF of 1940
Book Details
Author(s)Patrick Gibbon
PublisherPatrick Gibbon
ISBN / ASINB00H0IQ22K
ISBN-13978B00H0IQ224
Sales Rank1,617,959
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
This is a amazingly detailed true story of an ordinary, patriotic young Englishman who, like thousands of others, preferred to leave the safety of his protected employment in England in order to fight for his king and country.
His name is Dennis Minter, born 1st December 1919 in Woking, Surrey.
He and thousands of inexperienced young soldiers like him were hurriedly sent under-trained, unprepared and under-armed to France in the spring of 1940 to help repel the all-powerful Nazi war machine... like naked lambs to the inevitable slaughter.
This book is dedicated to Dennis Minter and all the young heroes of the BEF (British Expeditionary Force) sent overseas in order to halt the cancerous spread of Hitler’s Nazis across Europe and the free world.
In particular, it is devoted to all those left behind after the evacuation of Dunkirk on 4th June 1940, who either died or were wounded or captured. They were destined to spend the next five long years in PoW camps across Germany and occupied Europe.
Hailed at the time as a monumental victory, the reality of the aftermath of Dunkirk told a very different story. Those left behind had to endure weeks of forced marches in the sweltering heat of the hot summer, torturous transportation across Europe into captivity, slave labour, whilst enduring malnutrition, starvation, brutality, beatings and murders.
His ordeal culminated in the horrendous three-month ‘Death March’ during one of the coldest winters on record, in the first few months of 1945.
Eventually he stumbling into the American lines.
But within days, he turned and took his revenge on his hated enemy before eventually dragging his emaciated body back home to England.
You have to read it to believe it.
The book consists of 586 pages of action, laughter and sadness, of murder and even romance. The descriptive text paints a vivid picture of the awful conditions he and his 40,000 fellows had to bear. In addition are 16 pages of monotone photographs of Dennis, his friends, comrades, places, artefacts, bombing raids, a famous German General whom he met and objects pertaining to his tale.
Ghosts of Dunkirk is available to purchase from the Amazon website from December 2013 onwards, as a Paperback and a Kindle eBook. Please give it a read, you won’t be disappointed.
The book is a great read and also an Historic Document, containing a brief account in the history of The Queen’s Royal Regiment and in particular, The Queen’s Royal Regiment 2nd/7th Battalion during the period January 1940 to June 1940 and the often bitter and chaotic part they played in the defence of France, culminating in the capture of some of them at Dunkirk. It may help today’s families find out a little more about the part that their fathers and grandfathers played in the Second World War for the defence of Europe against the might of the Nazi state.
The Author hopes in due course, be publishing a comprehensive list of names of members of The Queen’s Royal Regiment 2nd/7th Battalion who served with him in France before their capture.
To add comment and reviews or new information that might be added in due course,
go to www.facebook.com/ghostsofdunkirk or
Email the author at ghostsofdunkirk@talktalk.net
His name is Dennis Minter, born 1st December 1919 in Woking, Surrey.
He and thousands of inexperienced young soldiers like him were hurriedly sent under-trained, unprepared and under-armed to France in the spring of 1940 to help repel the all-powerful Nazi war machine... like naked lambs to the inevitable slaughter.
This book is dedicated to Dennis Minter and all the young heroes of the BEF (British Expeditionary Force) sent overseas in order to halt the cancerous spread of Hitler’s Nazis across Europe and the free world.
In particular, it is devoted to all those left behind after the evacuation of Dunkirk on 4th June 1940, who either died or were wounded or captured. They were destined to spend the next five long years in PoW camps across Germany and occupied Europe.
Hailed at the time as a monumental victory, the reality of the aftermath of Dunkirk told a very different story. Those left behind had to endure weeks of forced marches in the sweltering heat of the hot summer, torturous transportation across Europe into captivity, slave labour, whilst enduring malnutrition, starvation, brutality, beatings and murders.
His ordeal culminated in the horrendous three-month ‘Death March’ during one of the coldest winters on record, in the first few months of 1945.
Eventually he stumbling into the American lines.
But within days, he turned and took his revenge on his hated enemy before eventually dragging his emaciated body back home to England.
You have to read it to believe it.
The book consists of 586 pages of action, laughter and sadness, of murder and even romance. The descriptive text paints a vivid picture of the awful conditions he and his 40,000 fellows had to bear. In addition are 16 pages of monotone photographs of Dennis, his friends, comrades, places, artefacts, bombing raids, a famous German General whom he met and objects pertaining to his tale.
Ghosts of Dunkirk is available to purchase from the Amazon website from December 2013 onwards, as a Paperback and a Kindle eBook. Please give it a read, you won’t be disappointed.
The book is a great read and also an Historic Document, containing a brief account in the history of The Queen’s Royal Regiment and in particular, The Queen’s Royal Regiment 2nd/7th Battalion during the period January 1940 to June 1940 and the often bitter and chaotic part they played in the defence of France, culminating in the capture of some of them at Dunkirk. It may help today’s families find out a little more about the part that their fathers and grandfathers played in the Second World War for the defence of Europe against the might of the Nazi state.
The Author hopes in due course, be publishing a comprehensive list of names of members of The Queen’s Royal Regiment 2nd/7th Battalion who served with him in France before their capture.
To add comment and reviews or new information that might be added in due course,
go to www.facebook.com/ghostsofdunkirk or
Email the author at ghostsofdunkirk@talktalk.net
