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Beau Geste
Hardcover
Mystery & ThrillerClassic FictionHistorical Fiction
ISBN13: 9781515442288
Publisher: Wilder Pubn
Published: Nov 20 2019
Pages: 368
Weight: 1.56
Height: 0.94 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Beau Geste is P. C. Wren's enduring novel of honour, sacrifice, and the harsh discipline of the French Foreign Legion.
When the Geste brothers are suspected of theft at their family estate, they depart England in silence and enlist in the French Foreign Legion. There, amid the unforgiving deserts of North Africa, loyalty is tested not only by heat and privation but by moral strain. At a remote desert fort, a company of legionnaires stands against overwhelming odds, their courage sustained by a code that values honour above survival.
Wren's narrative combines adventure with reflection upon duty and reputation. The desert setting is rendered with stark clarity, serving both as physical trial and moral crucible. Beneath the outward action lies a meditation upon family, integrity, and the quiet endurance of men bound by shared obligation.
Long regarded as a classic of early twentieth-century adventure fiction, Beau Geste remains one of the defining literary treatments of the French Foreign Legion and of the ethos of sacrifice that shaped its legend.
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