{"product_id":"knight-errant","title":"Knight Errant","description":"\u003cp\u003eRobert Irwin Knight, bank clerk, left Downpatrick for Army service, initially as a sergeant with the British Expeditionary Force in France, surviving its chaotic retreat and subsequent evacuation from Dunkirk. Thereafter as a Commissioned Officer he served in the defence of the UK. Finally he took part in the Normandy campaign.\u003cbr class=\"\"\u003e\u003cbr class=\"\"\u003eAfter retirement from a post-war career as an English teacher at Banbridge Academy, he wrote of his war-time service, a memoir notable for its wit and self-deprecation. He gives charming, penetrating descriptions of his fellow officers and men, of the people among whom they moved, the liberated and the conquered.\u003cbr class=\"\"\u003e\u003cbr class=\"\"\u003eThis humane and intelligent man has written the least militaristic account possible of his hopes and fear, his exhilaration and anxiety, during six years of service.\u003cbr class=\"\"\u003e\u003cbr class=\"\"\u003eWritten some forty years after the event, the memoir is enlivened with literary references, the fruit of his subsequent university study and of his teaching; and enlivened too with many hilarious anecdotes. No reader is likely ever to forget his account of the incident at Manchester station.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57483342872949,"sku":"9781399966061","price":12.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781399966061.jpg?v=1786178482","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/knight-errant","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}