Our great-grandchildren, when they learn how we began this war by snatching glory out of defeat . . . may also learn how the little holiday steamers made an excursion to hell and came back glorious.
Source: (On Dunkirk) BBC Radio broadcast, 5 June 1940)
-- J B Priestley, (Sep 13 1894-1984), English author, dramatist; He wrote Angel Pavement, Literature and Western Man, and The Edwardians.