The Snow Goose Author:Paul Gallico Inside front fly leaf - "They tell the story of the Snow Goose today in London, in Dover, in the Channel ports - where ever there are men gathered who saw the might bird soar calm and unafraid through the leaden death and blanketing smoke of Dunkirk, and who owe their safety to the dark twisted man and the small boat that those great black-tippe... more »d wings conveyed. They tell of the Snow Goose, all they know of her; but what they tell is only a litle of the story. The truth lies far from blazing Dunkirk, the terrible Stukas, the offshore transports, and the huddled men on the beaches. The truth lies in a distant Channel marsh, up a winding estuary away from the sea; and it involves not alone the Canada-bred wanderer of the airways, but Philip Rhayader and the blonde girl Frith as well.« less