Under Two Flags: A Story of the Household and the Desert

by Ouida

Book Overview

Under Two Flags is the first and the best of the Foreign Legion romances which have consistently enthralled readers and cinema audiences, as well as Ouida's best-known and most imitated work.
In order to shield his younger brother, and to protect the name of the "titled and wedded" Lady Guenevere, the Hon. Bertie Cecil enlists in the second regiment of the Chasseurs d'Afrique, condemning himself to years of danger and hardship under the blazing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0192823280
• ISBN13: 9780192823281
• Release Date: June 1995
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 560 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.1" x 7.8"

Customer Reviews

I was bowled over by this book

This old time thriller is so intensely melodramatic that one overlooks the impossible events related. This story moves one to tears, as its author designed it should. This book came out in 1867. Despite its old-fashioned melodrama if you give this book a chance I think you will be glad you read it. It is an outstanding type of its genre.