Seven authors. Nine stories. One Dunkirk collection. This anthology commemorates the Dunkirk evacuation in a series of linked short stories. A young girl flees war-ravaged Belgium, while a German tanker progresses closer to the beaches, and a British soldier reflects on the chaos of war as he faces his final battle. A French artilleryman gets […]
The Dunkirkers – the 17th century’s forgotten pirates
Eleanor Swift-Hook thinks it’s time we remembered the Dunkirkers, the most feared pirates of the early 17th century. Forgotten by most of us, these privateers operating in the English Channel were, in their time, the terrors of the seas. My mistress, his good mother, with a daughterAbout the age of six, crossing to Jersey,Was taken […]