The Twenty-Five Days
MASEFIELD, John
NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Published: Heinemann, [1972]
Stock code: 34719
Price: £16.00
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with plates and endpaper maps; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
First publication in full of Masefield's war diary covering May 10 to June 3 1940. The final section, describing the evacuation from Dunkirk, appeared as 'The Nine Days Wonder' in 1941 but the rest was banned for security reasons. Enser, p.133; Wight 127.