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Sapper

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0755116836 ISBN 13: 9780755116836

Verlag: House of Stratus, 2009

Inhaltsangabe

In a town called Poperinghe, during the height of the German offensive in May 1918, quartermaster-sergeant, Derek Vane, watches with mixed feelings as a pilot and his observer are shot down. What is there left for this ghost town, ravaged by war and utterly devastated? This penetrating story, which takes us through to the end of the war and charts the diverse experiences of soldiers and their loved-ones, was written by a man who experienced it all.

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Sapper is the pen name of Herman Cyril McNeile, born in 1888 at the Naval Prison in Bodmin, Cornwall, where his father was governor. He served in the Royal Engineers (popularly known as sappers) from 1907 to 1919, being awarded the Military Cross during World War 1. McNeile started writing in France, adopting the pen name because serving officers were not allowed to write under their own names. When his first stories, about life in the trenches, were published in 1915, they were an enormous success. But it was his first thriller, Bulldog Drummond (1920) that launched him as one of the most popular novelists of his generation. It had several amazingly successful sequels, including The Black Gang, The Third Round, and The Final Count. Another great success was Jim Maitland, featuring a footloose English sahib in foreign lands. Sapper published nearly thirty books in total, and a vast public mourned his death in 1937, at the early age of forty-eight. There are several feature films of his work.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: House of Stratus
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0755116836
• ISBN 13: 9780755116836
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 250
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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