Ian Hay

Scally: The Story of a Perfect Gentleman (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Excerpt: "And so the drill goes on. All over the drab, dusty, gritty parade-ground, under the warm September sun, similar squads are being pounded into shape. They have no uniforms yet: even their instructors wear bowler hats or cloth caps. Some of the faces under the brims of these hats are not too prosperous. The junior officers are drilling squads too. They are a little shaky in what an actor would call their "patter," and they are inclined to lay stress on the wrong syllables; but they move their squads about somehow. Their seniors are dotted about the square, vigilant and helpful--here prompting a rusty sergeant instructor, there unravelling a squad which, in a spirited but misguided endeavour to obey an impossible order from Second Lieutenant Bobby Little, has wound itself up into a formation closely resembling the third figure of the Lancers."

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: OTB eBook publishing
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783958649767
• Artikelnr.: 50500577

Autorenporträt

Major General John Hay Beith, CBE (17 April 1876 ¿ 22 September 1952), was a British schoolmaster and soldier, but he is best remembered as a novelist, playwright, essayist and historian who wrote under the pen name Ian Hay. (Wikipedia)