Proceed, Sergeant Lamb (Portway Reprints) [Hardcover]

Robert Graves (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 1969 | ISBN-10: 085594191X | ISBN-13: 978-0855941918 | Edition: New edition

In this sequel to SERGEANT LAMB OF THE NINTH, Lamb, along with 3000 others of the Burgoyne's army, is in a prison camp near Boston, awaiting repatriation. But the American Congress refuses to ratify the agreement and Lamb plans an escape.

He manages to make his way through General Washington's lines and rejoins Cornwallis in the Carolinas, fighting with him until Yorktown. Again he makes a remarkable escape to rejoin the British in New York, accompanied by eight Fusiliers.

PROCEED SERGEANT LAMB is based on the correspondence of a remarkable man at arms who fought for "King and Country" in our war for independence.

--This text refers to the Audio Cassette edition.

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8 1.5-hour cassettes --This text refers to the Audio Cassette edition.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 332 pages
• Publisher: C.Chivers; New edition edition (December 1969)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 085594191X
• ISBN-13: 978-0855941918
• Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds

More About the Author

ROBERT GRAVES (1895-1985) was an English poet, translator, and novelist, one of the leading English men of letters in the twentieth century. He fought in World War I and won international acclaim in 1929 with the publication of his memoir of the First World War, Good-bye to All That. After the war, he was granted a classical scholarship at Oxford and subsequently went to Egypt as the first professor of English at the University of Cairo. He is most noted for his series of novels about the Roman emperor Claudius and his works on mythology, such as The White Goddess.