From Dunkirk to D-Day

Steve Newman Writer
5 min readJun 3, 2020

A Manager’s Story

John Mills in the 1958 feature, Dunkirk

When I first met Arthur in 1969 he was a man in his late fifties and a manager in a large department store. For five years he was my boss.

He’d seen better times in the retail industry, but he was still a very proud and capable man in his beautifully pressed morning suit and stiff white collar and regimental tie. His dark brilliantined hair was, in the style of the 1930s, parted in…

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