by Percival Christopher Wren · Club Internacional del Libro, Colección Novela Bélica, 2012, Madrid. · tapa dura · ISBN 9788440714145
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«Beau Geste» is the adventure novel by Percival Christopher Wren, published by the Club Internacional del Libro in hardcover (399 pages, in Spanish).
An officer of the Foreign Legion discovers a fort in Nigeria with all its soldiers dead. In flashback, the novel explains how the disappearance of a valuable jewel leads the three Geste brothers to enlist in the Legion. The action takes place in the African desert and portrays the harshness of military life.
It is the first installment of the Beau Geste trilogy, originally published in 1924. This edition belongs to the Colección Novela Bélica of the Club Internacional del Libro.
It will appeal to readers of classic adventure novels, historical fiction and stories set in a military environment in Africa.
Percival Christopher Wren was an English writer, mostly of adventure fiction. He is remembered best for Beau Geste, a much-filmed book of 1924, involving the French Foreign Legion in North Africa. This was one of 33 novels and short story collections that he wrote, mostly dealing with colonial soldiering in Africa.
