Author: F S Brereton [Frederick Sadlier Brereton]
Title: A Gallant Grenadier: A Tale of the Crimean War
Description: London, Blackie and Son, 1911. Cloth. A scarce children's novel about a British grenadier in the Crimean War, with illustrations and a map. A scarce work, originally published in 1901. Here with frontispiece and five further full plate illustrations from prolific illustrator Water Paget, and map of the Crimea. Collated, complete.Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick Sadlier Brereton, the author of this work, was a British Army medical officer and writer of over forty children's books detailing heroic deeds conducted in the name of the British Empire. This, one of his earliest works, details the brave adventures of a heroic grenadier serving his country in the Crimean War.Featuring a sixteen page publisher's catalogue to the rear. In the publisher's original pictorial cloth binding. Fading to spine and small portion of front board. Bumping to head and tail of spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Very Good . Ill.: Wal Paget. Very Good .

Keywords: British Army Crimean War Ottoman Empire Charge of the Light Brigade Crimean War British Empire Wal Paget


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