Anyone heard of this? I got a new book the other day and on the back it says 'Soon to be made into a film by Century Aspect Films' I've not read the book yet but its a true story about three BEF soldiers from different Labour Battalions who hook up with three French Soldiers and a Senegalese Soldier fighting the Germans around the R.Seine during June 1940. The men are Jack Speight, Harry Polsen, Volander Thomas, Robert Lacoche Sekou Diouf and Pierre Prunier. All three BEF men are in the same cemetery at St. Sever Cemetery Extension, Rouen. CWGC :: Certificate CWGC :: Certificate CWGC :: Certificate Anyone else heard of it?
THE GREATER SHARE OF HONOUR - BOOK OVERVIEW Kim James’ first book is a romantic and moving biography of seven men, three British, three French and a Senegalese. Born hundreds, and in one case thousands, of miles apart, separated by nationality, race, religion and class they have a unity at their death in the same moment, time and space. It was only by chance that Kim discovered that the dates on their graves in the British military cemetery in Rouen and the Necropolis in Fleury les Aubrys are not only wrong in all cases bar one, but totally impossible. Through England and France to a village in the Senegalese brush, painstaking research has tracked the immediate families of all the men including widows, sons and a daughter. The story describes the lives and personalities of the men from birth to the outbreak of the second world war. It shows their loves, their hopes and despair and their optimism in the face of the greatest danger. It describes the coming together of their fates. Every event, large or small, in the months of their lives from the outbreak of war in 1939 to their deaths is fact. Only dialogue is invented and much of that is based on the letters home to their families and the memories of their families. The book is soon to be made into a film by Century Aspect Films. The Author joined the British Army and served in the 3rd Royal Tank Regiment for three years at the end of the 2nd World War.
