Sergeant Lamb's America

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Academy Chicago Publishers, 1986 - Fiction - 339 pages
This novel takes place in the early years of the American Revolution and is based on the adventures of one Sergeant Lamb, a Dublin man in the service of His Majesty's army. It begins with Lamb's early days in Dublin and ends with his arrival in Boston as a member of the regiment taken prisoner after Burgoyne's surrender at Saratoga.

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3
Section 2
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Section 3
34
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Sergeant Lamb's America
Robert Graves
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Sergeant Lamb's America: An Historical Novel of the American War of Independence
Robert Graves
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About the author (1986)

Robert Graves was born in 1895 in London and served in World War I. Goodbye to All That: an Autobiography (1929), was published at age thirty three, and gave a gritty portrait of his experiences in the trenches. Graves edited out much of the stark reality of the book when he revised it in 1957. Although his most popular works, I, Claudius (1934) and its sequel, Claudius the God and His Wife Messalina (1935), were produced for television by the BBC in 1976 and seen in America on Masterpiece Theater, he was also famous as a poet, producing more than 50 volumes of poetry. Also a distinguished academic, Graves was a professor of English in Cairo, Egypt, in 1926, a poetry professor at Oxford in the 1960s, and a visiting lecturer at universities in England and the U.S. He wrote translations of Greek and Latin works, literary criticism, and nonfiction works on many other topics, including mythology and poetry. He lived most of his life in Majorca, Spain, and died after a protracted illness in 1985.

Bibliographic information

TitleSergeant Lamb's America
AuthorRobert Graves
PublisherAcademy Chicago Publishers, 1986
Original fromthe University of Michigan
DigitizedAug 10, 2010
ISBN089733213X, 9780897332132
Length339 pages
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Fiction / General
Fiction / Historical / Colonial America & Revolution
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