The adventures of Gerard
By: Arthur Conan Doyle
Series: Gerard
Publisher: Ulverscroft; Ulverscroft Softcover
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Leicester
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9781444818215
Subjects: Fiction; History
Description: "By his own account, Etienne Gerard is the most supreme specimen of French soldiery to be found in all of Napoleon's empire. (To everyone else, he is a hare-brained Hussar ricocheting blithely through the wars, trailing havoc in his wake.) Reminiscing over the campaigning exploits of his youth - from attempting to explode a Spanish convent, to venturing behind enemy lines only to be swept up in a British fox-hunt - the Brigadier has, somehow, always won through with his honour and dignity (mostly) intact. For, as his beloved Emperor observes, though Gerard may possess the thickest head in the whole French army, he has also the stoutest heart..."--P. [4] of cover.