R. V. C. Bodley (1892–1970) was a British Army officer, author and journalist. After studying at
Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, Bodley was commissioned into the
King's Royal Rifle Corps. He served with them during the
First World War, where he was given the rank of
lieutenant colonel and command of a battalion. After witnessing the
1919 Paris Peace Conference, he grew disillusioned with the military and went to live in the
Sahara as a nomad for seven years, at the suggestion of
T. E. Lawrence. In 1927 he wrote a successful book on his travels,
Algeria From Within, the first of his 18 books. After leaving the Sahara he traveled Asia, and was one of few Westerners allowed access to Japan's
South Pacific Mandates during the 1930s. Bodley moved to the United States in 1935, where he worked as a
screenwriter, and was hired by
Charlie Chaplin in 1936. He re-enlisted in the British Army at the outbreak of the Second World War and was sent to Paris to work for the
Ministry of Information. He later returned to the United States, where he was an advisor to the Arabic desk of the
United States Office of War Information. (
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