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A cavalry unit, having crossed the Sahara to relieve a besieged French Foreign Legion fort, arrives to an eerie silence -- the enemy has vanished, and the post's walls and ramparts are defended by dead men. The fort's commander, slain by a bayonet through the heart, clutches... Read Full Overview

The collected Gestes-the first volume of a four volume set

Mr. George Lawrence, C.M.G., First Class District Officer of His Majesty's Civil Service, sat at the door of his tent and viewed the African desert scene with the eye of extreme disfavour. There was beauty neither in the landscape nor in the eye of the beholder.

The collected Gestes-the first volume of a four volume set

Beau Geste is a rollicking adventure story of the French Foreign Legion. Set in the period before World War I it has captured the imagination of generation after generation.

The Gestes brothers orphans from a well to do family. When suspicion of theft... Read Full Overview

Mr. George Lawrence, C.M.G., First Class District Officer of His Majesty's Civil Service, sat at the door of his tent and viewed the African desert scene with the eye of extreme disfavour. There was beauty neither in the landscape nor in the eye of the beholder.

Michael "Beau" Geste is the protagonist. The main narrator is his younger brother John. The three Geste brothers are portrayed as behaving according to the British upper class values of a time gone by, and "the decent thing to do" is, in fact, the leitmotif of the novel. The... Read Full Overview

Percival Christopher Wren (1875-1941) was a British writer, mostly of war adventure fiction. He is remembered best for BEAU GESTE, a much-filmed book of 1924 involving the French Foreign Legion in North Africa, and its sequel BEAU SABREUR.

Beau Geste is a 1924 adventure novel by P. C. Wren. It has been adapted for the screen several times.

Michael "Beau" Geste is the protagonist. The main narrator (among others), by contrast, is his younger brother John. The three Geste brothers of Brandon Abbas... Read Full Overview

Good Gestes: Stories of Beau Geste, His Brothers, and Certain of Their Comrades in the French Foreign Legion is a collection of short stories written by Percival Christopher Wren. The book follows the adventures of Beau Geste and his brothers, Digby and John, as well as some... Read Full Overview