Sound the Retreat: A Novel
by Raven, Simon
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0825303435
- ISBN 13
- 9780825303432
- Seller
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Marshfield Hills, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
Beaufort Books, 1986. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. In 'Sound the Retreat", Simon Raven details the hectic death throes of the Indian Empire, when tradition and honor were giving way to riot, nationalism, and hatred. The second part of Simon Raven's acclaimed Alms for Oblivion series begins in 1945, at the end of World War II. British colonial rule in India is slowly disintegrating. Peter Morrison arrives at the Officer Training School as one of a batch of one hundred Indian Army Infantry Cadets during turbulent times, just as the army leadership is turned over to the Indians. With the Empire's demise at hand, only a few of the cadets will ever be officers in India or anywhere in the Far East." Stated First American Edition. Octavo, 258 pp. Blue cloth backstrip over cream paper-covered boards. Top edge of text block dust-stained with faint foxing along fore-edge, else Fine. Dust jacket shows some rubbing to edges.
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- Bookseller
- Black Paw Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8091
- Title
- Sound the Retreat: A Novel
- Author
- Raven, Simon
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0825303435
- ISBN 13
- 9780825303432
- Publisher
- Beaufort Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1986
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