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In Gerard, Conan Doyle brough to life a really memorable and living character: a vain, brave French brigadier with an amusing touch of stupidity whose adventures in the Napoleaonic Wars have delighted readers ever since he first charged onto the scene.
He is brash and boastful in relating his exploits with his beloved hussars during twenty years of fighting. Berlin, Naples, Vienna, Madrid, Lisbon, Moscow - we stabled our horses in them all. This delightfully flamboyant, supremely brave character carries the reader through twelve campaigns, across the length and breadth of Europe, in a series of breathtaking escapades. All the excitement of this colourful period is captured in the very best of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's many historical creations.
Cover picture: Original engraving of Talleyrand, Lasalle and Gerard; hand tinted by Shelagh Davies.
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Arthur Conan Doyle was born in Edinburgh in 1859. Sent off to boarding school, he cut his teeth as a story - teller amusing his schoolmates with tales and writing letters home to his mother.
He practiced medicine and, in 1900, volunteered as a medic in Africa during the Boer War - he was later knighted for his service. Doyle lost a son, two brothers in law, and two nephews to the Great War. He is remembered for the Sherlock Holmes stories and his novel The Lost World.
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Conan Doyle originally published the humorous stories in this 1896 anthology in "Strand" magazine, where Sherlock Holmes had long comfortably dwelled. These are the first-person war stories of Etienne Gerard, a dandyish, opinionated, conceited, randy, dull-witted, and fearless officer in Napoleon's army. In the canon of satirical military figures Gerard stands (at attention, of course) squarely between Baron Munchausen and the Good Soldier Schweik. Militarism, English boorishness, and French arrogance get the worst from Conan Doyle here. His humor seems to escape narrator Rupert Degas, who exhibits plenty of vigor but little comic finesse. He plays Gerard with a French accent and fully voices the other characters, playing the various accents convincingly while skimping on characterization. A handsome and informative pamphlet accompanies the CD edition. Y.R. © AudioFile 2010, Portland, Maine
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