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A French officer rides his camel toward a lonely fort in the Sahara At each break in the parapet a soldier stands rifle at the ready Yet no bugle is sounded no challenge is called no sound of any kind echoes across the vast desert There is only silence And those staring men So begins PC Wrens unforgettable mystery concerning the theft of a priceless sapphire and the remarkable adventures of the three Geste brothers The illustrations in this volume of Beau Geste were produced by Helen Madeleine McKie for a 1927 edition of the book published by John Murray of London Afterword by Brian Stableford This is from the Readers Digest Worlds Best Reading series The text is complete and unabridged
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Beau Geste is a 1924 adventure novel by P C Wren It has been adapted for the screen several timesMichael Beau Geste is the protagonist The main narrator among others by contrast is his younger brother John The three Geste brothers of Brandon Abbas are used as a metaphor for the British upper class values of a time gone by and the decent thing to do is in fact the leitmotif of the novelThe Geste brothers are orphans and have been brought up by their aunt The rest of Beaus band are mainly Isobel and Claudia only daughter of Lady Patricia and in a way also reason enough for Michael to join the French Foreign Legion and Lady Patricias relative AugustusWhen a precious jewel known as the Blue Water goes missing suspicion falls on the young people and Beau leaves Britain to join the Foreign Legion la Légion étrangère followed by his brothers Digby his twin and John There after some adventure and separation from Digby the sadistic Sergeant Lejaune gets command of the little garrison at Fort Zinderneuf in French North Africa and only an attack by Tuaregs prevents a mutiny and mass desertion of course the Geste brothers and a few loyals are against the plot Throughout the book and adventures Beaus behaviour is true to France and the Legion and he dies at his post At Brandon Abbas the last survivor of the three brothers John is welcomed by their aunt and his fiancée Isobel and the reason for the jewel theft is revealed to have been a matter of honour and to have been the only decent thing possible
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Brian Donlevy 19011972 was an underrated film actor with surprising range and a littleheralded gift for comedy Often typecast as a villain he played the definitive bad guy in such films as Destry Rides Again Union Pacific and Beau Geste all in 1939 He showed his versatility in the title role of Preston Sturges political satire The Great McGinty 1940 and impressed both New York critics and the Soviet government as the cooly authoritative Major Caton in Wake Island 1942 Donlevy was fondly remembered as globetrotting US Special Agent Steve Mitchell in the television series Dangerous Assignment 1952 and as Professor Quatermass in two acclaimed science fiction films This first ever biography of Donlevy covers his colorful early life as a boy soldier his years playing comedy roles on Broadway and his long career in Hollywood
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Percival Christopher Wren 1875 1941 was a British writer mostly of adventure fiction He is best remembered best for Beau Geste a muchfilmed 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
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Brian Donlevy 19011972 was an underrated film actor with surprising range and a littleheralded gift for comedy Often typecast as a villain he played the definitive bad guy in such films as Destry Rides Again Union Pacific and Beau Geste all in 1939 He showed his versatility in the title role of Preston Sturges political satire The Great McGinty 1940 and impressed both New York critics and the Soviet government as the cooly authoritative Major Caton in Wake Island 1942 Donlevy was fondly remembered as globetrotting US Special Agent Steve Mitchell in the television series Dangerous Assignment 1952 and as Professor Quatermass in two acclaimed science fiction films This first ever biography of Donlevy covers his colorful early life as a boy soldier his years playing comedy roles on Broadway and his long career in Hollywood
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Simon Murray was nineteen when he joined the French Foreign Legion Inspired by the romantic myths of Beau Geste he found himself in the ranks of one of the worlds greatest and toughest fighting forces He kept a unique diary of the hard living harsh discipline and the military tradition of March or Die which he turned into this gripping book Simon Murrays personal account of a gently reared welleducated British youths coming of age in the French Foreign Legion has the drama excitement and colour of a good gutsandglory thriller Murray is a talented storyteller and his fellow legionnaires and their disciplined and proud Corps are vividly portrayed I was hooked from the first page Dr Henry Kissinger One of the greatest adventure stories in recent years Chris Patten
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