Adrian Crisp Matador Books, 2017, PB, 272pp, £7.99, 978-1788036818
Dr James Butland’s son is killed in a car crash. This nightmare scenario propels the doctor into the realms of his past — his preparation for studying history at Oxford, his fighting with a rifle brigade at the ill-fated Battle of Calais in May 1940, his astonishing escape back to England, and his subsequent action with his regiment in …