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