Sword of Bone

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.