Sword of Bone: 7790 Wartime Classics

By Anthony Rhodes and Anthony Rhodes

Book Overview

Based on its author's own experience with the British Army, this new edition of a 1942 classic includes an introduction from IWM which puts the novel into historical context and shines a light on this seminal moment in the British experience of the Second World War. It is September 1939. Shortly after war is declared, Anthony Rhodes is sent to France, serving with the British Army. His days are filled with the minutiae and mundanities of Army life - friendships, billeting, administration - as the months of the 'Phoney War' quickly pass and the conflict seems a distant prospect. It is only in the spring of 1940 that the true situation becomes clear; the men are ordered to retreat to the coast and the beaches of Dunkirk, where they face a desperate and terrifying wait for evacuation.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1912423383
• ISBN13: 9781912423385
• Release Date: July 2021
• Publisher: Imperial War Museum
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.1" x 7.7"