Wallace Breem

The Leopard and the Cliff (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The Leopard and the Cliff has been out of print for a long time with second-hand copies being elusive; nonetheless it has a grim resonance with today demonstrating the futility of fighting in that part of the world.

'Wallace Breem is a writer who never disappoints one. He has an extraordinary power of treating military disaster in depth and yet with pace, whether on the frontiers of Rome or British India, and of analysing the tensions of command. Gripping as an action story, deeply moving on the individual level, it involves one as an eye-witness from beginning to end.' Mary Renault

'I found the book gripping. I am not a Frontier man but the account of the tribal situation on the Frontier and of the atmosphere accords with all I have read or heard about it. The author brings out movingly and with skill several points of vital importance to an understanding of British India and the Frontier in particular. Everything depended on India (in this case Pathan) co-operation; this broke down once the British showed lack of confidence and began to retire. The clash of loyalties which then arose was highly dramatic and painful for those involved. The loneliness of such a man as Sandeman is also brought out with skill.' Philip Mason, author of A Matter of Honour: An Account of the Indian Army, Its Officers and Men

---

Dieser Download kann aus rechtlichen Gründen nur mit Rechnungsadresse in A, B, BG, CY, CZ, D, DK, EW, E, FIN, F, GR, H, IRL, I, LT, L, LR, M, NL, PL, P, R, S, SLO, SK ausgeliefert werden.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Faber & Faber
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Altersempfehlung: ab 12 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. November 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780571281022
• Artikelnr.: 37840164

Autorenporträt

Wallace Breem (1926-1990) was a British author acclaimed for his classic historical novels, including Eagle in the Snow (1970) and The Leopard and the Cliff (1978). Born in Surrey, Breem entered the Indian Army's Officers Training School aged 18; and in 1945 was commissioned as an officer of the Corps of Guides, an elite Cavalry detachment of the North West Frontier Force. After the Partition of India in 1947, Breem returned to England and held a variety of jobs including a labourer in a tannery, assistant to a veterinary surgeon, and rent-collector in the East End. He joined the library staff of London's Inner Temple in 1950, becoming a founder member of British and Irish Association of Law Librarians. By his death, he was the Librarian and Keeper of Manuscripts of the Inner Temple Law Library.