Gunmen, Gallants and Ghosts by Dennis Wheatley

Author:Dennis Wheatley
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 1963-11-22T16:00:00+00:00

STORY XI

Here is another five-minute story of the Second World War which appeared in the Evening Standard.

As it brings in our ill-fated expedition to Norway in April 1940, it must be the last that I wrote in that period. In early May of that year Churchill succeeded Chamberlain and, while the fate of France was still in the balance, the nation was roused to a new consciousness of its peril. All kinds of emergency measures were taken and red tape was cut, right, left, and centre; as a result many thousands of people were absorbed into our war effort with—or even without—the barest formality. I had the good fortune to be one amongst those thousands and from then on I was working double shifts, writing papers on various aspects of the war for the Joint Planning Staff, and, between whiles, plugging away at my novels up to the early hours of the morning. There was no time left to write short stories.

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