SWORD Of BONE by Anthony Rhodes, read by Mark Meadows - audiobook extract
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 \u2013 friendships, billeting, administration \u2013 as the months of the \u2018Phoney War\u2019 quickly pass and the conflict seems a distant prospect.\nIt 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.