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Chargement... Captain of Foot (1959)par Ronald Welch
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. One of the more unusual books in the sequence of Carey novels, Captain of Foot is also one of the most moving. Set during the Peninsular War, the book begins in media res, without the usual backstory for its protagonist. It proceeds in discrete episodes, moving from one engagement to another with gaps of many months at a time. Unlike the earlier Carey novels, it also contains scenes showing the events from the perspective of the adversary. The denouement is heroic but tragic. Captain of Foot is a sophisticated addition to the series. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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The trials of Christopher Carey as he serves as a lieutenant under Wellington in the Iberian Peninsula. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Originally published in 1959, one year after Escape from France (1960), in which Christopher Carey appeared as a young child—as a series, the Carey Family Chronicles are now ordered by historical chronology, rather than publication date—Captain of Foot is probably the weakest book from Welch that I have read, to date. Which isn't to say that it wasn't engaging, and that I didn't enjoy it. But I think that its structure—essentially, it is one long series of battles—and lack of interesting secondary characters made it less moving than it could have been, if Welch had concentrated on a more limited range of engagements, and focused more on his main character and his relationship with the people around him. I appreciated the fact that the author was trying to do something different here—the narrative offers scenes from the perspective of one of Christopher's adversaries, and Christopher himself is
All that being said, this was still a good book, and one I would recommend to young historical fiction lovers, to those interested in the Peninsular War (or the Napoleonic Wars in general), and to readers who have enjoyed other books about the Carey family. ( )