Author: ANTHONY RHODES
Title: Sword of Bone. No. 35
Description: Slightly Foxed Ltd. 2016. Linnen band. Pp: 318. It`s hard to imagine that anyone who took part in the disaster of Dunkirk could write an amusing book about it.nBut that is what Anthony Rhodes has done in Sword of Bone, his wry account of the events leading up to the evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force in May 1940 " a - strategic withdrawal according to plan` as the chaos was officially described.nBut this isn`t a heartless book. Rhodes doesn`t deny the awfulness of war, though the fighting mainly takes place offstage. But being observant and cool-headed, with an ironic sense of humour, he manages to capture the absurdity as well as the tragedy of what took place. Sword of Bone is very far from what is usually meant by a - war book`.nFresh from reading mechanical sciences at Cambridge, Rhodes was commissioned into the Royal Engineers on the eve of the Second World War. Memories of the First War were all too fresh in 1939, and he had nightmares about trench warfare. Instead, hanging about in France during the period known as the - phoney war`, he and his fellow officers were entertained to sumptuous meals by local dignitaries and enjoyed sociable springtime visits to Paris and to the Maginot Line. However, the French had failed to extend this supposedly impregnable fortification as far as the coast in order not to offend the neutral Belgians, so the British set about doing so " work for which Rhodes had to requisition the materials. ISBN: 9781906562922. Cond./Kwaliteit: Als nieuw.
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Title: Sword of Bone. No. 35
Description: Slightly Foxed Ltd. 2016. Linnen band. Pp: 318. It`s hard to imagine that anyone who took part in the disaster of Dunkirk could write an amusing book about it.nBut that is what Anthony Rhodes has done in Sword of Bone, his wry account of the events leading up to the evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force in May 1940 " a - strategic withdrawal according to plan` as the chaos was officially described.nBut this isn`t a heartless book. Rhodes doesn`t deny the awfulness of war, though the fighting mainly takes place offstage. But being observant and cool-headed, with an ironic sense of humour, he manages to capture the absurdity as well as the tragedy of what took place. Sword of Bone is very far from what is usually meant by a - war book`.nFresh from reading mechanical sciences at Cambridge, Rhodes was commissioned into the Royal Engineers on the eve of the Second World War. Memories of the First War were all too fresh in 1939, and he had nightmares about trench warfare. Instead, hanging about in France during the period known as the - phoney war`, he and his fellow officers were entertained to sumptuous meals by local dignitaries and enjoyed sociable springtime visits to Paris and to the Maginot Line. However, the French had failed to extend this supposedly impregnable fortification as far as the coast in order not to offend the neutral Belgians, so the British set about doing so " work for which Rhodes had to requisition the materials. ISBN: 9781906562922. Cond./Kwaliteit: Als nieuw.
Keywords: 9781906562922
Price: EUR 25.00 = appr. US$ 27.17 Seller: De Slegte
- Book number: 2190006
- Book number: 2190006
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