Dunkirk (A Memorial)
Arthur Bryant; Edward Shanks
The Macmillan company of Canada limited (1943)
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#6164
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Poet
chapbook 
Product Details
Nationality British
Pub Place Toronto
Personal Details
Read It Yes
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Conflict WW2
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8 Copies listed on WorldCat

Inside cover : "The following article marks the occasion of the third anniversary of the memorable evacuation of Dunkirk by the British army and describes how Britain became the advanced bastion of the United Nations. Book contains poem by Edward Shanks - The Great Miracle - "Edward Shanks is one of the most prominent contemporary literary figures in England. He was the first winner of the Hawthornden Prize for imaginative literature, 1919, and since he has been a leading journalist and editor.

9pp text plus 3pp long poem, The Great Miracle, by Edward SHANKS written in recollection of "The Great Miracle" (May-June 1940). Profits for The Daily Sketch War Relif Fund. Original wraps a little stained otherwise very good.

Wikipedia:
Edward Richard Buxton Shanks (11 June 1892 – 4 May 1953) was an English writer, known as a war poet of World War I, then as an academic and journalist, and literary critic and biographer. He also wrote some science fiction.[1]
He was born in London, and educated at Merchant Taylors' School and Trinity College, Cambridge. He passed his B.A. in History in 1913. He was editor of Granta from 1912–13. He served in World War I with the British Army in France, but was invalided out in 1915, and did administrative work until war's end.
He was later a literary reviewer, working for the London Mercury (1919–22) and for a short while a lecturer at the University of Liverpool (1926). He was the chief leader-writer for the Evening Standard from 1928 to 1935.
The People of the Ruins (1920) was a science-fiction novel in which a man wakes after being put into suspended animation in 1924, to discover a devastated Britain 150 years in the future.[1] The People of the Ruins has an anti-communist subtext (the future 1924 is devastated by Marxist revolutionaries).[2]