Beau Geste, Gr.12 History Independent Assignment

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Wren, P.C. (Percival Christopher), Beau Geste, Great Britain: Kent Chatham, 1994, pp.339.
Book Summary:
Beau Geste is a romantic adventure set in the searing heat of the Sahara Desert. The story concerns the Geste brothers who disappear from England to avoid scandal and become members of the French Foreign Legion, include brotherly loyalty, patriotic honor, self-sacrifice, and treachery. Beau Geste was the subject of a famous film starring Gary Cooper and Ray Milland in 1939. Although it is a fiction book, it gives readers a convincing account of life in the French Foreign Legion, complete with the boredom endured by soldieries since the invention of armies, the loyalties of the legionnaries and the Sahara desert.
Critical Review:
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