DISTINGUISHED author Hugh Sebag-Montefiore is appealing for accounts of fighting in France in 1940.
Mr Sebag-Montefiore, whose last book, Enigma: The Battle for the Code, became a bestseller, is now writing about the Dunkirk evacuation, for a book to be published by Penguin.
He said: "After finding accounts describing the heroic actions fought by the Worcestershire regiment - in particular on the La Basse Canal and at Bambecque near Dunkirk - in France in 1940 - I am now searching for other verbal or written accounts of these actions.
"I'm also searching for accounts from other soldiers or sailors who served in the British Expeditionary Force - which includes the King's Shropshire Light Infantry, the Welsh Guards and Royal Welch Fusiliers the Royal Navy, and in little or HMS ships, or cross-Channel steamers, during the campaign in France and Belgium in 1940, or their families if they hold written memoirs about the campaign."
Mr Sebag-Montefiore's book will cover Dunkirk and the other evacuations from France in 1940, the forgotten heroes whose last-ditch stands and daring acts at sea made these evacuations possible, and the subsequent sinking of the French Fleet by the British at Oran/Mers-el-Kebir.
Contact Mr Sebag-Montefiore at 37 Tanza Road, London NW3 2UA, or on 0207 435 1035 (work) or 1181 (home).
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