P. C. Wren: Adventure Novels & Tales From the Foreign Legion

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Percival Christopher Wren (1875-1941) was an English writer, mostly of adventure fiction. His novels and short stories mostly deal with colonial soldiering in Africa. While his fictional accounts of life in the pre-1914 Foreign Legion are highly romanticized, his details of Legion uniforms, training, equipment and barrack room layout are generally accurate, which has led to suggestions that Wren himself served with the legion.



Table of Contents:



The Novels



SNAKE AND SWORD



THE WAGES OF VIRTUE



DRIFTWOOD SPARS



CUPID IN AFRICA (The Baking of Bertram in Love and War)



Short Stories



STEPSONS OF FRANCE



Ten little Legionaries



À la Ninon de L'Enclos



An Officer and—a Liar



The Dead Hand



The Gift



The Deserter



Five Minutes



"Here are Ladies"



The MacSnorrt



"Belzébuth"



The Quest



"Vengeance is Mine..."



Sermons in Stones



Moonshine



The Coward of the Legion



Mahdev Rao



The Merry Liars