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Rhodes, Anthony. SWORD OF BONE: THE PHONEY WAR AND DUNKIRK 1940.
Severn House, (London, 1975), reprint.
224 pp, 8vo (8" H), hard cover in dust jacket. ISBN 0727800418 "This is a true account of one soldier's life from the outbreak of war in September 1939 to his evacuation from Dunkirk a few months later in 1940. Anthony Rhodes was sent with the B. E.F. to France where he spent some time in comparative comfort during the unreal period of 'The Phoney War' when any fighting you encountered was only what you read about in the papers...His transfer to Lille brings him nearer to reality, and a v i s i t to the impressively defended Maginot Line, plus a glimpse of the enemy only the distance of a football pitch away, causes the atmosphere and tempo of this book to change...in the bombarded town (of Dunkirk)...we become aware of the tens io n a nd p re ssure on the British troops, and of the horror the civilian population had to undergo. Sheltering first in the cellars of buildings, trying to protect and comfort the townspeople - mostly with empty words, for what reassurance coul d b e off ere d? - R hodes then leads his men to the Dunkirk beaches, where, unprotected and to all intents defenceless against the Luftwaffe attacks, they lie in the scrub and sand waiting and praying for the arrival of the armada, ships large and smal l, und er t he prot ection of the Royal navy...a masterly, unexaggerated account of the horror of 1940..." Browning to pages and edges of text block, very light edge wear, slight fading to spine color - moderate at top edge, light wrinkling a t top /bo ttom of sp ine . Du st jacket is price clipped, has one small closed tear - archivally taped, fading to spine and flap-folds - lettering still very legible on spine, very light soiling, small ghost sticker mark on front panel. Good/Good
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