SWORD OF BONE - the Phoney War and Dunkirk 1940, Anthony Rhodes,

ECHOES OF WAR series. London 1986 Buchan & Enright, UK paper reprint of 1942 ed, VG condition,  very light cover wear, 5 1/4 x 8 1/2, 235 pages.

----------------In September 1939, at the age of 23, Anthony Rhodes went to France with Montgomery's 3rd Division. A Regular officer with four years' service, he had already decided that the Army was not for him - the German blitzkrieg in 1940 changed his mind. The tenor of his remarkable book subtly changes, from the unreal, comfortable days of the `Phoney War', to the helter-skelter retreat across France, with its hopeless fighting, the roads jammed with refugees, the towns burning, the Stukas and Messerschmitts bombing and strafing troops and civilians alike. 

At last the author led his men down to the beaches of Dunkirk where, unprotected and effectively defenceless against the Luftwaffe, they lay waiting and praying for deliverance. Deliverance came - a great armada of ships large and small finally retrieved the major part of the battered BEF. This is a masterly and unexaggerated account of the horror of 1940, with a quality of disillusion, even cynicism, which sets it apart from other memoirs, and which employs the writer's only weapon against war - derision.

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