Proceed, Sergeant Lamb: The Continuing Saga of Sergeant Lamb During the American War of Independence

Graves, Robert/ Bell, Madison Smartt (Introduction by)

ISBN 10: 1644213184 / ISBN 13: 9781644213186

Published by Seven Stories Pr, 2025

336 pages. 8.00x5.50x0.75 inches. In Stock. Seller Inventory # x-1644213184

Synopsis:

Sergeant Roger Lamb is in a prison camp near Boston with 3,000 other soldiers in General Johnny Burgoyne's army who surrendered at the Battle of Saratoga. Lamb is a non-commissioned officer in the British Army who served in America during the American War of Independence. But the American Congress refuses to ratify a repatriation agreement and Lamb plans an escape. He manages to make his way through General Washington's lines and rejoins Cornwallis in the Carolinas, fighting with him until Yorktown. Then he makes another remarkable escape to rejoin the British in New York. The second in a two-book series, this account is inspired by the real-life Sergeant Lamb's personal memoirs. Renowned poet, classicist, and novelist Robert Graves traces the sergeant's harrowing time in military service, providing a compelling, only barely fictionalized eyewitness account of a crucial point in American history.

About the Author: ROBERT GRAVES (1895-1985) was an English poet, translator, and novelist, one of the leading English men of letters in the twentieth century. He fought in World War I and won international acclaim in 1929 with the publication of his memoir of the First World War, Good-bye to All That. After the war, he was granted a classical scholarship at Oxford and subsequently went to Egypt as the first professor of English at the University of Cairo. He is most noted for his series of novels about the Roman emperor Claudius and his works on mythology, such as The White Goddess.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Proceed, Sergeant Lamb: The Continuing Saga ...
Publisher: Seven Stories Pr
Publication Date: 2025
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Brand New