Beau Geste By P.C. Wren

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Title	:	Beau Geste
Author	:	P.C. Wren
Format	:	Hardcover
Page	:	367 pages
ISBN	:	0899681352

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French Legionnaires find one of their fortresses manned by dead men Who could have done it A flashback unravels the mystery of the three English Geste brothers A classic, rip roaring tale of adventure.

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about Author

Percival Christopher Wren 1 November 1875 1 22 November 1941 was a British 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, and its sequels, Beau Sabreur and Beau Ideal.Born as plain Percy Wren, in Deptford, South London, England, Percy was the son of a schoolmaster His literary influenc Percival Christopher Wren 1 November 1875 1 22 November 1941 was a British 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, and its sequels, Beau Sabreur and Beau Ideal.Born as plain Percy Wren, in Deptford, South London, England, Percy was the son of a schoolmaster His literary influences included Frederick Marryat, R M Ballantyne, G A Henty, and H Rider Haggard After graduation with a Master of Arts degree from St Catherine s College, Oxford, a non collegiate college for poorer students, Percy worked as a boarding school teacher for a few years, during which he married Alice Shovelier, and had a daughter Estelle, born 1901 In 1903 he joined the Indian Education Service as headmaster of Karachi High School now Pakistan While in India, he joined the Poona Volunteer Rifles with the rank of Captain, before his service was terminated in October 1915 after sick leave He resigned from the Indian Education Service in November 1917 It is presumed that his wife died in India, for no record of her return to Britain has been found his daughter having died in England in 1910 From there it is claimed that he joined the French Foreign Legion for a single tour of five years though he would have been 42 years of age on enlistment, somewhat older that the usual recruit He lived out the remainder of his life in England concentrating on his literary career One of the few photographs of Wren known shows a typical British officer of the Edwardian era with clipped moustache, wearing plain dark blue regimental dress.Wren was a highly secretive man, and his membership of the Legion has never been confirmed When his novels became famous, there was a mysterious absence of authenticating photographs of him as a legionnaire or of the usual press articles by old comrades wanting to cash in on their memories of a celebrated figure It is now thought likely that he encountered legionnaires during his extensive travels in Algeria and Morocco, and skillfully blended their stories with his own memories of a short spell as a cavalry trooper in England While his fictional accounts of life in the pre 1914 Foreign Legion are highly romanticised, his details of Legion uniforms, training, equipment and barrack room layout are generally accurate This may however simply reflect careful research on his part the descriptions of Legion garrison life given in his work The Wages of Virtue written in 1914 closely match those contained in the autobiographical In the Foreign Legion by ex legionnaire Edwin Rosen, published Duckworth London 1910

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Beau Sabreur

Beau Ideal

BEAU TRILOGY (BEAU GESTE, BEAU SABREUR, BEAU IDEAL) & 36 STORIES OF THE FOREIGN LEGION (Timeless Wisdom Collection Book 3670)

Good Gestes: Stories of Beau Geste, His Brothers, and Certain of Their Comrades in the French Foreign Legion

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Title: Beau Geste
Posted by:P.C. Wren
Published :2016-03-03T14:02+01:00
French Legionnaires find one of their fortresses manned by dead men Who could have done it A flashback unravels the mystery of the three English Geste

Beau Geste

P.C. Wren367 pagesP.C. Wren