Dunkirk The First of Many Mistakes: True Stories from the Second World War

The book contains 118 true stories describing a calamitous event in each individual's life during the 2nd World War.

Roger Payne served in Britain's elite Parachute Regiment from 1960 to 1969. He and his family moved to Australia after he enlisted in the Australian Army as a physical training instructor to train National Servicemen for Vietnam. He remained in the Army until 2003. During that time he developed new programmes for the Corps of Infantry and received the Army's highest award, the Chief of the Defence Force Commendation. A year later he was awarded one of the highest awards an Australian citizen can get, The Order of Australia. He is still the only serviceman to be awarded both.