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Exploits and Adventures of Brigadier Gerard (New York Review Books Classics)
by Arthur Conan Doyle

Exploits and Adventures of Brigadier Gerard (New York Review Books Classics)
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Author: Arthur Conan Doyle
Introduction: George Macdonald Fraser
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2001-05-10
ISBN: 0940322730
Number of pages: 417
Publisher: NYRB Classics

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Summary: 5 Stars

Long before Flashman or Sharpe there was Etienne Gerard. When people mention Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes instantly springs to mind. If presssed you may think of 'The Lost World' and Professor Challenger, but how many would think of Brigadier Gerard?

Gerard is a master swordsman, a master horseman, and all the women swoon at the sight of him - if he is to be believed, also he is a Gascon (just like D'Artignan). The Napoleonic Wars are over but Gerard, now 70 sits in a cafe and recounts his many exploits. He has been from England to Russia, and even to St Helena in a bid to help Napoleon escape. Whether he is carrying out missions, or helping others, or even escaping as a pow from Dartmoor, he has numerous tales to tell, all involving great amounts of derring-do. This book contains 'The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard' and 'The Adventures of Brigadier Gerard' and also an appendix which is a bonus story. All in all you have 18 short stories in this book.

With these light humoured tales you get the impression that Gerard is exaggerating or even making them up, but full of action, and Gerard's accounts of cricket and fox hunting you are in for a real treat with this book. This is definitely Boys Own through and through that is ideal for young and old.

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