The Young Buglers [Paperback]

G. A. Henty (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 14, 2008

To my Young Readers. I remember that, as a boy, I regarded any attempt to mix instruction with amusement as being as objectionable a practice as the administration of powder in jam; but I think that this feeling arose from the fact that in those days books contained a very small share of amusement and a very large share of instruction. I have endeavored to avoid this, and I hope that the accounts of battles and sieges, illustrated as they are by maps, will be found as interesting as the lighter parts of the story. As in my tale, "The Young Franc-Tireurs," I gave the outline of the Franco-German war, so I have now endeavored to give the salient features of the great Peninsular struggle. The military facts, with the names of generals and regiments, the dates and places, are all strictly accurate, and any one who has read with care the story of "The Young Buglers" could pass an examination as to the leading events of the Peninsular war. Yours truly, THE AUTHOR.

Product Details

• Paperback: 244 pages
• Publisher: NuVision Publications (May 14, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1595476849
• ISBN-13: 978-1595476845
• Product Dimensions: 6 x 9 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)

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1.0 out of 5 stars Check the publisher of "The Young Buglers" before your buy, August 17, 2010

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The version from General Books LLC is scanned in using OCR, and as the publishers website states, there's been no editing to catch errors, there's numerous typos and the book has no illustrations or index. Very poorly formatted and poor quality overall. If you do the "Look Inside" thing, you'll see a message that reads "Just so you know...This view is of the Paperback edition (2007) from BiblioBazaar. The Paperback edition (2010) from General Books LLC that you originally viewed is the one you'll receive if you click the Add to Cart button at left." Reason being that the General Books LLC version is so poorly formatted that if you saw it, you wouldn't even consider buying it. Look for a better edition (The CreateSpace edition is a far better version of this book).

Henty's books are almost uniformly good, especially for younger boys, and they deserve better than the garbage produced by General Books LLC.

As the copyright has come off Henty's books, there are numerous reprints by small publishing companies specialising in Print on Demand versions of these older books. Many of these publishers either do poor quality OCR scanning OR they do a straight scan and produce a facsimile version - some of these are OK, some are very bad. Your best bet when you're looking at these books is to either find a genuine publisher that does a good job (check reviews for there books very carefully as Amazon more often that not associates reviews with the book title rather than the publishers version so you can't be sure the review is actually for the book/publisher you're looking at) or look for an older second hand copy, which, while used, will at least be free of typos and garbage and in a font you can actually read.