The several dozen notebooks have been turned into a 326-page book presenting the story of a young, ordinary British soldier who escaped after the Dunkirk evacuation had been completed. Raymond “Ray” Bailey of Luton, just north of London, had, after his amazing escape, penned (or, rather, pencilled) his account in the following few years. Even thought his exploits were noted in the local newspaper, The Dunstable Gazette, in 1940, it’s taken some 80 years for Bailey’s full and daring story to emerge, thanks to author and researcher David Wilkins, who lives at Portland, in Dorset.