Death to the French

Death to the French
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Death to the French  
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1st edition
Author(s) C. S. Forester
Cover artist Gino d'Achille
Country United Kingdom
Language English
Genre(s) Historical novel
Publisher The Bodley Head
Publication date 1932
Media type Print (Hardback & Paperback)
ISBN 978-1931541725
OCLC Number 74724893

Death to the French is a 1932 novel of the Peninsular War during the Napoleonic Wars, written by C. S. Forester, the author of the Horatio Hornblower novels. It was also published in the United States under the title Rifleman Dodd.

Contents

Overview

The novel relates the adventures of a British rifleman of the 95th Regiment of Foot who is cut off from his regiment when the Allied army retreats behind the Lines of Torres Vedras. He is forced to survive for several months in territory that has been devastated by the Allies and occupied by the French. With some help from a few local Portuguese, Dodd wages guerrilla warfare against the French.[1] Its picture of the hero's resolution and devotion to duty in dangerous circumstances caused it to be put on the official reading list endorsed by the Commandant of the United States Marine Corps.[2]

Homages

In Sharpe's Escape (2004), one of Bernard Cornwell's Richard Sharpe novels (which were partly inspired by Death to the French), a Rifleman named Matthew Dodd is separated from Sharpe's company in a skirmish during the Peninsular Campaign in 1810. Cornwell has acknowledged on his website that this character is intended to be the same individual depicted by Forester in Death to the French.[3]

Notes

  1. ^ HistoricalNovels.info
  2. ^ Krulak, Charles C. (8 July 1996). "MCBUL 1500. The Marine Corps Professional Reading Program List". C4I.org. http://www.c4i.org/usmcbooks.html. Retrieved 5 January 2011. 
  3. ^ "Frequently Asked Questions". Bernard Cornwell - The Author's Official Site. 26 April 2004. http://www.bernardcornwell.net/index.cfm?page=12. Retrieved 5 January 2011. 

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v · d · eWorks by C. S. Forester
Novels:
A Pawn Among Kings (1924) · Payment Deferred (1926) · Love Lies Dreaming (1927) · The Wonderful Week (1927) · The Shadow of the Hawk (1928) · Brown on Resolution (1929) · Plain Murder (1930) · Death to the French (1932) · The Gun (1933) · The Peacemaker (1934) · The African Queen (1935) · The General (1936) · The Happy Return (1937) (Beat to Quarters in U.S.) · A Ship of the Line (1938) · Flying Colours (1938) · To the Indies (1940) · The Earthly Paradise (1940) · The Captain from Connecticut (1941) · The Ship (1943) · The Bedchamber Mystery (1944) · The Commodore (1945) · Lord Hornblower (1946) · The Sky and the Forest (1948) · Mr. Midshipman Hornblower (1950) · Randall and the River of Time (1950) · Lieutenant Hornblower (1952) · Hornblower and the Atropos (1953)  · The Good Shepherd (1955) · Admiral Hornblower in the West Indies (1958) · Hornblower and the Hotspur (1962) · Hornblower and the Crisis (1967)
Short stories:
"The Paid Piper" (1924) · "Two-and-Twenty" (1931 autobiographical) · "The Nightmare" (1954) · "The Last Encounter" (1967) · "Hornblower and the Widow McCool" (1967) · "The Man in the Yellow Raft" (1969) · "Gold from Crete" (1970) · "Hornblower One More Time" (1976)
Picture books:
Poo-Poo and the Dragons (1942) · The Barbary Pirates (1953)
Plays:
U 97 (1931) · Nurse Cavell (1933)
Articles:
"Hollywood Coincidence" (1956) · "William Joyce" (1965)
Non-fiction:
Napoleon and His Court (1924) · Josephine, Napoleon's Empress (1925) · Victor Emmanuel II and the Union of Italy (1927) · Louis XIV, King of France and Navarre (1928) · Nelson (1929) · The Voyage of the Annie Marble (1929) · The Annie Marble in Germany (1930) · Marionettes at Home (1936) · The Adventures of John Wetherell (1953)(editor)  · The Age of Fighting Sail (1956) · The Naval War of 1812 (1957) · The Last Nine Days of the Bismarck (1959) (or "Hunting the Bismark") · The Hornblower Companion (1964) · Long Before Forty (1967)



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