P. C. Wren

The Stories of the Foreign Legion

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Produktbeschreibung

Table of Contents: - STEPSONS OF FRANCE: - Ten little Legionaries - À la Ninon de L'Enclos - An Officer and-a Liar - The Dead Hand - The Gift - The Deserter - Five Minutes - "Here are Ladies" - The MacSnorrt - "Belzébuth" - The Quest - "Vengeance is Mine..." - Sermons in Stones - Moonshine - The Coward of the Legion - Mahdev Rao - The Merry Liars - GOOD GESTES: - What's in a Name - A Gentleman of Colour - David and His Incredible Jonathan - The McSnorrt Reminiscent - Mad Murphy's Miracle - Buried Treasure - If Wishes were Horses - The Devil and Digby Geste - The Mule - Low Finance - Presentiments - Dreams Come True - FLAWED BLADES: Tales from the Foreign Legion - No. 187017 - Bombs - Mastic--and Drastic - The Death Post - E Tenebris - Nemesis - The Hunting of Henri - PORT O' MISSING MEN: Strange Tales of the Stranger Regiment - The Return of Odo Klemens - The Betrayal of Odo Klemens - The Life of Odo Klemens - Moon-rise - Moon-shadows - Moon-set - Percival Christopher Wren (1875-1941) was an English writer, mostly of adventure fiction. He is remembered best for Beau Geste, a much-filmed book of 1924, involving the French Foreign Legion in North Africa. This was one of 33 novels and short story collections that he wrote, mostly dealing with colonial soldiering in Africa. While his fictional accounts of life in the pre-1914 Foreign Legion are highly romanticized, his details of Legion uniforms, training, equipment and barrack room layout are generally accurate, which has led to unproven suggestions that Wren himself served with the legion.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sharp Ink
• Seitenzahl: 356
• Altersempfehlung: bis 9 Jahren
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 496g
• ISBN-13: 9788028358365
• Artikelnr.: 70007803