Exploits of Brigadier Gerard

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

ISBN 10: 0719503701 / ISBN 13: 9780719503702

Published by John Murray Publishers Ltd, 1949

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pocket edition publsihed by Thomas Nelson. Seller Inventory # 1105R922304

Bibliographic Details

Title: Exploits of Brigadier Gerard

Publisher: John Murray Publishers Ltd

Publication Date: 1949

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

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Synopsis:

You do very well, my friends, to treat me with some little reverence, for in honouring me you are honouring both France and yourselves. It is not merely an old, grey-moustached officer whom you see eating his omelette or draining his glass, but it is a fragment of history. In me you see one of the last of those wonderful men, the men who were veterans when they were yet boys, who learned to use a sword earlier than a razor, and who during a hundred battles had never once let the enemy see the colour of their knapsacks. For twenty years we were teaching Europe how to fight, and even when they had learned their lesson it was only the thermometer, and never the bayonet, which could break the Grand Army down. Berlin, Naples, Vienna, Madrid, Lisbon, Moscow-we stabled our horses in them all.