Sword of Bone
by Anthony Rhodes
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A reissue of Anthony Rhodes's acclaimed 1942 novel detailing his own wartime experience during the evacuation at Dunkirk. It is September 1939. Shortly after World War II 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 show more 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. show lessTags
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- Canonical title
- Sword of Bone
- Original publication date
- 1942
- People/Characters
- Anthony Rhodes
- Important places
- Dunkirk, Hauts-de-France, France
- Important events
- Evacuation of Dunkirk
- Related movies
- Dunkirk (2017)
- Epigraph
- ...then with what trivial weapon came to hand,
The Jaw of a dead Ass, his sword of bone,
A thousand foreskins fell, the flower of Palestin.
- John Milton, Samson Agonistes - Dedication
- to Cecil Binney
- First words
- 'Three of our officers have just got married', said the officer who welcomed me at the mess, 'Seems like war doesn't it?'
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Many were indifferent; some I know would just as soon have been reading a novel under a tree, and the London stage, holding one of its mirrors up to nature, saw only two things at Dunkirk: "The noise, my dear! And the people!...'
- Original language
- English, UK
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- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 6
- ASINs
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