WITH THE B.E.F. IN FRANCE
“Vanguard to Victory,” by Skene Catling. (London: Methuen.) Mr. Catling was Reuters’ war correspondent with the B.E.F. in France, and his book, introduced by a brief foreword from Lord Gort, is an account of how the B.E.F. spent its first months in that country. In the book there are assembled the dav-to-day dispatches written by the author and their effect, as the cover note says, is to give the public a classified anil coherent account of the first months of the land war. And if those months seem now a long way back in the rapid-fire pageant of modern history, there is perhaps still something to be learnt from the book of the unfailing cheerfulness and high morale of the British troops, a morale that was later more amply proved on a far sterner testing ground.
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Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 283, 24 August 1940, Page 15
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