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The adventures of Gerard

This book contains Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's dramatic tales of a colorful cavalry officer in Napoleon's armies.

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  • "Hazañas del Coronel Gerard"

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  • "This book contains Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's dramatic tales of a colorful cavalry officer in Napoleon's armies."@en
  • "In a follow-up to the previously published volume The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard, Arthur Conan Doyle presents more of the recollections of the fictional retired French brigadier. Equal parts humor writing and classic adventure tales, these stories are sure to be a hit."@en
  • "The racy, witty soldier of Napoleon, utterly devoted to his emperor and his regiment, gives, in his reminiscences, a stirring account of that huge military machine as it rolled across Europe in triumph and westwards in retreat."
  • "This is an early edition of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's dramatic tales of a colorful cavalry officer named Gerard in Napoleon's armies."@en
  • "By his own account, Etienne Gerard is the most supreme specimen of French soldiery to be found in all of Napoleon's empire. (To everyone else, he is a hare-brained Hussar ricocheting blithely through the wars, trailing havoc in his wake.) Reminiscing over the campaigning exploits of his youth - from attempting to explode a Spanish convent, to venturing behind enemy lines only to be swept up in a British fox-hunt - the Brigadier has, somehow, always won through with his honour and dignity (mostly) intact. For, as his beloved Emperor observes, though Gerard may possess the thickest head in the whole French army, he has also the stoutest heart..."

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  • "Genres littéraires"
  • "English fiction"@en
  • "War stories"@en
  • "War stories"
  • "Military history"@es
  • "Military history"@en
  • "Military history"
  • "Large type books"@en
  • "Large type books"
  • "Aventure stories"@en
  • "Adventure stories"@en
  • "Adventure stories"
  • "Adventure fiction"
  • "Adventure fiction"@en
  • "Mystery and detective fiction"@en
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Historical fiction"@en
  • "History"
  • "History"@en
  • "Fiction"@es
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Mystery fiction"@en
  • "Short stories"@en
  • "Tekstuitgave"
  • "Detective and mystery stories"@en
  • "Suspense fiction"

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  • "The adventures of Gerard"@en
  • "The adventures of Gerard"
  • "Al galope (Hazañas del Coronel Gerard)"@es
  • "The Adventures of Gerard"
  • "The Adventures of Gerard"@en
  • "Al galope : (hazanas [sic] del Coronel Gerard)"
  • "Aventuras de Gerard"@es
  • "Aventuras de Gerard"
  • "As aventuras de Gerard"
  • "Al galope : (hazañas del coronel Gerard)"@es
  • "Adventures of gerard"
  • "Oberst Gérards bedrifter"@da
  • "Napoleonin sotilaan seikkailut"@fi
  • "Aventuras do Brigadeiro Gérard"
  • "Oberst Gerards bedrifter"@da
  • "Aventuras do brigadeiro Gérard"
  • "Adventures of Gerard : With an introd. by Elizabeth Longford"
  • "Adventures of Gerard"
  • "Adventures of Gerard"@en
  • "Oberst Gerards bedrifter : (Overs. fra engelsk efter The adventures of Gerard og The exploits of brigadier Gerard)"@da

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