Sergeant Michael Cassidy - Brossura

Sapper

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0755116860 ISBN 13: 9780755116867

Casa editrice: House of Stratus, 2009

Riassunto

Cassidy is a legendary soldier in the Corps of Royal Engineers – courageous, fiery and full of Irish charm, he has been known to turn even Brigadier-Generals trembling and submissive. During his temporary absence from the plains of Flanders, he meets our narrator – a higher-ranking officer who is in awe of Cassidy’s formidable reputation – and during their break from action, they share incredible stories about life on the front.

Su questo libro

L'autore

Sapper is the pen name of Herman Cyril McNeile, born in 1888 at the Naval Prison in Bodmin, Cornwall, where his father was governor. He served in the Royal Engineers (popularly known as sappers) from 1907 to 1919, being awarded the Military Cross during World War 1. McNeile started writing in France, adopting the pen name because serving officers were not allowed to write under their own names. When his first stories, about life in the trenches, were published in 1915, they were an enormous success. But it was his first thriller, Bulldog Drummond (1920) that launched him as one of the most popular novelists of his generation. It had several amazingly successful sequels, including The Black Gang, The Third Round, and The Final Count. Another great success was Jim Maitland, featuring a footloose English sahib in foreign lands. Sapper published nearly thirty books in total, and a vast public mourned his death in 1937, at the early age of forty-eight. There are several feature films of his work.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: House of Stratus
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0755116860
• ISBN 13: 9780755116867
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 110