The Gun

ISBN-13: 9780753829141 / Miękka / 2011 / 192 str.

C. S. Forester

Opis

Abandoned by the retreating Spanish army during the Peninsular War, the gun was an 18-pounder bronze cannon weighing three tons. When a group of Spanish partisans come across it two years later, they see in it chance for victory against the French - but first they must cross the mountains.

Recenzje

A brief but well crafted tale from the pen of a first class storyteller SOUTH WALES ARGUS

O autorze

Cecil Scott Forester was born in 1899 in Cairo and educated in England. He went to Hollywood during the opening years of World War II to help write and produce 'propaganda' films that would convince U.S. filmgoers that the they should take the side of the British and Allies in the War, which led to such films as Eagle Squadron (1941). He is most famous for his celebrated Hornblower series. He died in 1966.