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Adventures of Colonel Daffodil.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Redgrave, Roy.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Redgrave, Roy, 1925---Travel.
- Redgrave, Roy.
- Redgrave family.
- Great Britain. Army--Officers--Biography.
- Great Britain.
- Generals--Great Britain--Biography.
- Redgrave, Roy, 1925- -- Travel.
- Generals.
- Local Subjects:
- Generals--Great Britain--Biography.
- Great Britain. Army--Officers--Biography.
- Redgrave family.
- Redgrave, Roy, 1925- -- Travel.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (290 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- : Pen and Sword, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Major General Sir Roy Redgrave has enjoyed an unusual, some might say eccentric, life. Born into the same family as the well known actors, he was brought up in Romania as part of a thriving international community before he joined the British Army and advanced to high rank.Following on from the success of his memoir Balkan Blue the author has pulled together a superb pot pourri of anecdotes covering his family, his military career and post-retirement travels and experiences. Readers will delight in the scope of this book which ranges widely from aristocratic life in feudal Romania to the dange
- Contents:
- Cover
- Dedication
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- PART I: 1861-1919
- Chapter 1: Danube Debut
- Chapter 2: Disastrous Diplomacy
- Chapter 3: Bitter Betrayal
- PART II: 1920-1945
- Chapter 4: Spring Weddings
- Chapter 5: Early Travels in Romania
- Chapter 6: The Flotsam of War
- PART III: 1946-1965
- Chapter 7: The Wendisch Wachmeister
- Chapter 8: The Honey Bag Fling
- Chapter 9: The Garde Champêtre
- Chapter 10: Corsican Shepherds
- PART IV: 1966-1980
- Chapter 11: The Berlin Wall
- Chapter 12: The Village Fête
- Chapter 13: Bindhi's Bluff
- Chapter 14: The Amerindians
- Chapter 15: The Dowager Duchess
- Chapter 16: Guards of Honour
- PART V: 1981-1996
- Chapter 17: Greenland Inuit
- Chapter 18: The General
- Chapter 19: Beyond Bear Island
- Chapter 20: Spitzbergen at War
- Chapter 21: Franz Josef Land
- Afterthoughts
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781783402793
- 1783402792
- 9781783460076
- 1783460075
- OCLC:
- 854974819
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