The Gun

Erstmals veröffentlicht 1933 und verfilmt 1957, ist dies eine Neuauflage des Klassikers vom Urheber der Hornblower-Serie. Eine Gruppe spanischer Partisanen findet eine Kanone, zurückgelassen vor zwei Jahren von den Truppen im Rückzug. Die Kanone, die sie nur mit der Hilfe halbverhungerter Zugtiere über die Berge schaffen, wird zum Symbol der Hoffnung im Kampf gegen Napoleons Truppen: sie macht aus ihnen eine Armee.

Zusatztext A brief but well crafted tale from the pen of a first class storyteller Informationen zum Autor Cecil Scott Forester was born in 1899 in Cairo and educated in England. He went to Hollywood during the opening years of World War II to help write and produce 'propaganda' films that would convince U.S. filmgoers that the they should take the side of the British and Allies in the War, which led to such films as Eagle Squadron (1941). He is most famous for his celebrated Hornblower series. He died in 1966. Klappentext A classic novel about the Peninsular War from the celebrated author of the HORNBLOWER seriesA classic novel about the Peninsular War from the celebrated author of the HORNBLOWER series Zusammenfassung A classic novel about the Peninsular War from the celebrated author of the HORNBLOWER series Abandoned by the retreating Spanish army during the Peninsular War, the gun is an eighteen pounder bronze cannon, thirteen feet long, weighing three tons. When a group of Spanish partisans come across it two years later they see in it a chance for victory against the French - but first they must haul it across the mountains with nothing but a handful of donkeys and half-starved oxen. On its epic journey the cannon begins to gain almost mystical significance. For, with the gun, they are no longer a band of Spanish irregulars, they are an army able to take on the cream of Napoleon's troops...

A brief but well crafted tale from the pen of a first class storyteller

Vorwort
A classic novel about the Peninsular War from the celebrated author of the HORNBLOWER series

Autorentext

Cecil Scott Forester was born in 1899 in Cairo and educated in England. He went to Hollywood during the opening years of World War II to help write and produce 'propaganda' films that would convince U.S. filmgoers that the they should take the side of the British and Allies in the War, which led to such films as Eagle Squadron (1941). He is most famous for his celebrated Hornblower series. He died in 1966.

Klappentext

A classic novel about the Peninsular War from the celebrated author of the HORNBLOWER series