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Sergeant Lamb of the Ninth

  • Imprint: Penguin Classics

  • ISBN: 9780141197685

  • Length: 288  Pages

  • Dimensions: 1mm x 1mm x 1mm

  • Weight: 145g

  • RRP: £14.99

Sergeant Lamb of the Ninth

Robert Graves first came across the name of Roger Lamb in 1914, when Graves was an English officer instructing his platoon in regimental history. Lamb was a British soldier who had served his king during the American War of Independence, and whose claim to a footnote in history is that he managed to escape twice from American prison camps. When Graves went to America in the 1930s, he remembered Sergeant Lamb, investigated his story and created this fictionalized memoir telling Lamb's story from his Irish childhood to war and revolution, weaving a mesmerizing tale of courage and adventure.

  • Imprint: Penguin Classics

  • ISBN: 9780141197685

  • Length: 288  Pages

  • Dimensions: 1mm x 1mm x 1mm

  • Weight: 145g

  • RRP: £14.99

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  • Among the most generous, self-willed, unseemly and brilliant writers of our century

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About the Author

Robert Graves

Robert Graves was born in 1895 in Wimbledon. He went from school to the First World War, where he became a captain in the Royal Welch Fusiliers and was seriously wounded at the Battle of the Somme. He wrote his autobiography, Goodbye to All That, in 1929, and it was soon established as a modern classic. He died on 7 December 1985 in Majorca, his home since 1929.

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5 moving poems from the men on the frontline of the Somme

The camaraderie forged between soldiers during the horrors of World War I inspired some of the greatest verse in English Literature. Here to mark Remembrance Day are some of our favourites.
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Writing the First World War feat. Jeremy Paxman, Robert Graves and Pat Barker

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