A PRISONER OF FRANCE
Reading edition
BEING THE REMINISCENCES OF THE LATE CAPTAIN CHARLES BOOTHBY, R.E.
In Square Crown 8vo. Printed on Light Paper, with Deckled Edges, and bound in Buckram. Price 6s.
Containing a Frontispiece Portrait of the Author, and several small Illustrations from Pen-and-ink Sketches in the Author’s journals.
“We cordially recommend this charming bit of autobiography. A page of it is worth a whole sackful of the trumpery trash which figures in the publishers’ advertisements as the historical novel.”—Daily News.
“Exceptionally interesting on account of the details which it supplies concerning the manner in which he was treated.”—Glasgow Herald.
“A very vivid picture of military life in the Peninsula.”—Speaker.
“It is impossible to read his diary without liking a man who made so light of trouble, and who bore himself so gallantly in captivity.”—Standard.
“The cheerfulness with which he writes throughout is singularly refreshing.”—Academy.
“It will be read with eager interest.... The narrative often reads like romance, but the author had too high a sense of probity to palm off fiction for actual personal experience.”—Scotsman.
“A very engrossing story.... It abounds in interesting anecdote and in intelligent observation.”—The Broad Arrow.
“These Memoirs thoroughly justify their publication, and they will be perused by students of military history with considerable advantage as well as keen enjoyment.”—St. James’s Gazette.
“‘A Prisoner of France’ should be in the hands of all young soldiers, for it is a manual of soldierly kindness and fine humanity.”—Vanity Fair.
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