The Medal of Brigadier Gerard
The Medal of Brigadier Gerard

Author: Arthur Conan Doyle

Publisher: Penguin Group

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13: 9780140815573

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The Emperor Napoleon gives Brigadier Gerard an important letter and tells him to take it to Paris. But there are German and Russian soldiers in France. They want the letter - and they want Brigadier Gerard.

The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard
The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard

Author: Arthur Conan Doyle

Publisher: IndyPublish.com

Published: 1896

Total Pages: 428

ISBN-13:

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You do very well my friends to treat me with some little reverence for in honouring me you are honouring both France and yourselves. It is not merely an old grey-moustached officer whom you see eating his omelette or draining his glass but it is a fragment of history.

Exploits and Adventures of Brigadier Gerard
Exploits and Adventures of Brigadier Gerard

Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Publisher: New York Review of Books

Published: 2001-04-30

Total Pages: 436

ISBN-13: 9780940322738

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Having killed off Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle began a new series of tales on a very different theme. Brigadier Gerard is an officer in Napoleon's army—ecklessly brave, engagingly openhearted, and unshakable, if not a little absurd, in his devotion to the enigmatic Emperor. The Brigadier's wonderful comic adventures, long established in the affections of Conan Doyle's admirers as second only to those of the incomparable Holmes, are sure to find new devotees among the ardent fans of such writers as Patrick O'Brian and George MacDonald Fraser.

The Exploits and Adventures of Brigadier Gerard
The Exploits and Adventures of Brigadier Gerard

Author: Arthur Conan Doyle

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 2008-05-29

Total Pages: 496

ISBN-13: 0141916974

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There is no braver officer in Napoleon’s cavalry than étienne Gerard – especially in his own opinion. Whether kidnapped by gangs of brigands or outnumbered by enemy troops, the plucky little soldier is constantly gallant, chivalrous and ready to face any danger, even if he doesn’t always think before he acts. With great gusto Gerard recounts the swashbuckling exploits and adventures of his glittering military career – carrying out secret missions for Napoleon, eluding capture by the Duke of Wellington, making a daring break from an English prison, rescuing ladies in distress, duelling to the death against the dastardly Baron Straubenthal and even saving the day at the Battle of Waterloo.

The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard
The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard

Author: Arthur Conan Doyle

Publisher: Canongate Books

Published: 2010-07-01

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 1847678084

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Edited and introduced by Owen Dudley Edwards. ‘. . . if he has the thickest head he also has the stoutest heart in my army.’ Thus spake Napoleon of Brigadier Etienne Gerard, and thus was established the formula for the great series of historical short stories which Conan Doyle inaugurated in the Strand magazine. Brigadier Gerard, an impeccably dressed young hussar, is a figure of fun as well as a soldier of great courage. In the spirit of Don Quixote or the Three Musketeers, he crosses the battlefields of Europe in a series of dashing adventures. Through Gerard, Conan Doyle brings Napoleon within our grasp, and with him the intricacies of a restless Europe under Napoleon’s shadow. Gerard is one of Conan Doyle’s most entertaining characters and surely one that must have influenced the making of George MacDonald Fraser’s Flashman, so outrageous and fortunate is this farcical character. The introducer and editor of this edition, historian and critic Owen Dudley Edwards, is also the author of the highly acclaimed biography The Quest for Sherlock Holmes.

The Medal of Brigadier Gerard
The Medal of Brigadier Gerard

Author: Arthur Conan Doyle

Publisher:

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 31

ISBN-13: 9783125731400

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Napoleon schickt seinen Brigadier mit einem wichtigen Brief nach Paris. Er wird von deutschen und russischen Soldaten verfolgt, die ihm die Nachricht abjagen wollen. - Für Englischlernende gekürzte Fassung der Originalausgabe.