Sword of Bone

Anthony Rhodes

• Publisher: Imperial War Museum
• Year: 2022
• Topic: Literature
• eBook ISBN:
  9781912423606
• Subtopic: World Literature
• Index: Literature

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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• About the Author
• Introduction
• CHAPTER ONE Soldiers of Misfortune
• CHAPTER TWO Carnival Journey
• CHAPTER THREE M. Octavo Busch; and the Nice Conduct of a Clouded Cane
• CHAPTER FOUR Army Hierarchy
• CHAPTER FIVE Of Castles, Food, and Champagne Magnates
• CHAPTER SIX Pillbox Land
• CHAPTER SEVEN Work
• CHAPTER EIGHT Low Life in Lille
• CHAPTER NINE Alsatian Journey
• CHAPTER TEN Maginot Outpost
• CHAPTER ELEVEN Paris
• CHAPTER TWELVE The War Starts
• CHAPTER THIRTEEN Belgian Blues
• CHAPTER FOURTEEN Brussels Believes in the British
• CHAPTER FIFTEEN The Germans Arrive
• CHAPTER SIXTEEN We ‘Take up New Positions’
• CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Booby-traps and Clarinets
• CHAPTER EIGHTEEN Madame Ko-Ko at War
• CHAPTER NINETEEN Lille Revisited
• CHAPTER TWENTY Retreat to the Coast
• CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE Dunkirk
• CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO The Beaches