Name: WREN, P.C. - Soldiers of Misfortune - (Hardcover in Jacket)
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WREN, P.C. - Soldiers of Misfortune - (Hardcover in Jacket)

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(NO MORE THAN 5 BOOKS PER ORDER OR PARCEL ALLOWED) - Book has gift message inside - Wrapper not as nice as the Google image shown here. >>> Ever since seeing, then reading, Beau Geste (and other Beaus), P. C. Wren has been one of my favorites. This one wanders far afield from his usual French Foreign Legion stories, although you start near and end there. - After a quick prologue involving a British woman, hiding from a desert Kaid and desperate to save her son, followed by the debut of future key character Joe Mummery, we move to the childhood of impoverished but titled Otho Mandeville-Bellame. We meet his friends Margaret & Jack Maykings, and Jules Maligni, all of whom are fascinated with the siege of Khartoum (so we know some way, at some point, we'll get to Africa). When Otho's father dies, he and his mother are taken in by pompous relations, but Otho continues his childhood boxing training with a 'new' friend, Joe Mummery, the British Boxing Champion. - Joe helps him get in to Oxford University, but then a series of misunderstandings, involving honor (of course - as the book's subtitle states, Otho "loved honour and chivalry ...but was romantical and most unwise") force Otho to resign from school, lose his friends and family, and sign a contract to enter the professional boxing circuit. - On the circuit, Otho enjoys win after win, but because his friends and family are gone, the victories mean nothing. Finally, when his professional triumphs are at their peak, receiving the worst emotional news (page 309/366) prefaced by the death of his mother, he joins the French Foreign Legion (it had to happen at some point). Where all things come to a head, and finally, for Otho, a satisfactory end. We spent most of our time boxing with Otho, match by match, and it's enthralling. Wren did claim to have been a fairground boxer during a three-year period between school and Oxford; certainly the descriptions of the matches are well done. Written in 1929, it's a bit of a twist on the usual P.C. Wren combination of Adventure, Romance, and All for Honor in the Legion. Personally, I prefer more time in the desert, but this was interesting. - (For the unwary, this book which was first published in 1929 uses insensitive descriptions and inappropriate language for non-Caucasian races.)

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