No Time for Dreams follows the author through France and Belgium and a desperate escape to Dunkirk in a bullet-riddled ambulance. After recovering from his war wounds, he survived the Battle of Britain at its height then embarked on a perilous sea voyage in the largest convoy ever to leave the UK, being dogged by the infamous Bismarck and the German U-boats that prowled the high seas. His destination: North Africa, with its searing heat, scorpions and barren wastes, and the see-saw war in the Western Desert. His journey continued with the invasion and swift conquest of Sicily, then the long trek up the Italian boot.