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Tunes of Glory
Published by
Lester and Orpen Dennys, Toronto, ON, 1980
ISBN 10: 0919630871
ISBN 13: 9780919630871
Used
Hardcover
Seller: Ainsworth Books ( IOBA), Chilliwack, BC, Canada
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Reprint. Some scuffing and edgewear of the dustjacket, slight soil to boards, light soil top page edges. ; A bright, solid book Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector. This classic military novel was first published by Putnam in the UK in 1956 and made into a highly regarded movie starring Alec Guinness. lester and Orpen Dennys has incorporated it into its well regarded International Fiction List. ; International Fiction List #8; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 200 pages; "Lt. Colonel Jock Sinclair is a rough talking, whisky drinking soldier's soldier, a hero of the desert campaign who rose to his position through the ranks. Colonel Barrow, an officer graduate of Oxford and Sandhurst, had a wretched war in Japanese prison camps. But he has come to take command of the Battalion he has long admired, the one that Jock Sinclair has served in since he was a boy. In the claustrophobic world of Campbell barracks, a conflict is inevitable between the two men and a tragedy unfolds with concentrated and ferocious power.James Kennaway served in a Highland regiment himself, and his feeling for 'tunes of glory, for the glamour and brutality of army life gives added authenticity and humour to this, his first and most famous novel.". Seller Inventory # 19637