by John Harris · Arrow Books Ltd · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780099133902
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«Ride Out the Storm» is John Harris's war novel, published by Arrow Books Ltd in paperback (272 pages, in English).
The novel recreates the evacuation of Dunkirk during World War II: more than a quarter of a million Allied soldiers are trapped between the German army and the sea, and in nine days they are rescued by an improvised flotilla of barges, tugboats and small craft. It portrays the courage and desperation of the men.
Originally published by Hutchinson in 1975; this Arrow Books edition is from 1988.
For readers of historical fiction and war novels, particularly those interested in World War II and the evacuation of Dunkirk.
John Harris was a British novelist. He published a series of crime novels featuring the character Inspector Pel, and war books. He wrote with his own name, and also with the pseudonyms of Mark Hebden and Max Hennessy. His 1953 novel The Sea Shall Not Have Them was the basis for a feature film of the same name in 1954. He was the father of Juliet Harris, who published more Inspector Pel books under the name of Juliet Hebden.
