Seven Men of Gascony

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Synopsis
(from book jacket flaps) IN THIS MAGNIFICENT saga which spans the heroic triumphs and defeats of Napoleon, R. F. Delderfield, the best-selling author of A Horseman Riding By, The Green Gauntlet God Is an Englishman and Theirs Was the Kingdom, relates the lives, the loves the battles and the enduring comradeship of seven soldiers, comrades and friends from Austria to Portugal, from Germany to Russia, and through the final defeat at Waterloo. Seldom has the master storyteller written in a more epic vein-, his novel takes the reader from the smoke of the battlefields to the councils of the Emperor, from the fire of Moscow, to Paris occupied by the Russians, from the life of French soldiers in captivity in England to the day-to-day concerns of ordinary Frenchmen and Frenchwomen at home, with a wealth of fascinating detail and a depth of understanding that are the hallmarks of Delderfield's fiction. Yet the focus of the novel remains its central characters-heroes in every sense of the word: Gabriel, the young painter turned dashing soldier-, Sergeant Jean Ticquet; Nicholas, the beau sabreur; Emmanuel with the attractive face and the merry eyes; Dominique, the farmhand; Claude, the romantic; Louis, the coachman who longs to be in the cavalry-and Nicholette, the beautiful young cantiniere, who marries one of them. . . . Sometimes united and sometimes separated, in war, peace, love, fortune, misfortune, adventure and danger, their stories are intertwined in the history of France and the glories of Napoleon until they face their fate together with their Emperor at the climactic moment of Waterloo. Full of romance, warmth and passion, Seven Men of Gascony is one of R. F. Delderfield's finest novels.
Copyright:
1973

Book Details

Book Quality:
Excellent
Book Size:
385 Pages
ISBN-13:
9780671217945
Publisher:
Simon & Schuster, Inc.
Date of Addition:
Copyrighted By:
May Delderfield
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
History, Literature and Fiction
Submitted By:
Kari G
Proofread By:
Kathy Hester
Usage Restrictions:
This is a copyrighted book.

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