The Man with the Clubfoot, by Valentine Williams
The Man With The Clubfoot, By Valentine Williams. Modification your habit to put up or waste the moment to only chat with your good friends. It is done by your everyday, do not you feel tired? Now, we will show you the new behavior that, actually it's an older behavior to do that could make your life much more certified. When really feeling burnt out of always talking with your friends all free time, you could locate the book entitle The Man With The Clubfoot, By Valentine Williams and after that read it.
The Man with the Clubfoot, by Valentine Williams
Best PDF Ebook The Man with the Clubfoot, by Valentine Williams
"[...]could drill a squad of recruits in their own language like the smartest Leutnant ever fledged from Gross-Lichterfelde. He never had any difficulty in passing himself off as a German. Well I remember his delight when he was claimed as a fellow Rheinländer by a German officer we met, one summer before the war, combining golf with a little useful espionage at Cromer.[...]".
The Man with the Clubfoot, by Valentine Williams- Published on: 2015-03-24
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.00" h x .42" w x 6.00" l, .46 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 184 pages
About the Author George Valentine Williams (1882 - 1946) was the son of G Edward Williams, Chief Editor of the Reuters News Agency. After being privately educated in Germany, he joined Reuters as a sub editor in 1902. He saw action during the Battle of the Somme, where he was seriously wounded in 1916, and was awarded the Military Cross. Williams then joined the small group of accredited war correspondents based at British General Headquarters and continued to serve as the accredited correspondent for the Daily Mail until the end of the War. After the War, Valentine Williams was in charge of reporting the Versailles Peace Conference in 1919 for the Daily Mail. In addition to journalism, Williams also became a popular writer of mystery fiction, publishing a series of 28 books from 1918 until his death in 1946.
Where to Download The Man with the Clubfoot, by Valentine Williams
Most helpful customer reviews
10 of 10 people found the following review helpful. Williams was the Robert Ludlum of his time!!!! By M. Thorsson In "The Man with the Clubfoot," Valentine Williams has written a thriller of mystery, love and intrigue, that in every sense of the word may be described as a roller coaster - written at a time when German was the country of villains, (remember when it was the USSR? now its the Taliban...), and the Kaiser is the bad guy...by adult son read this in one or two sittings.Williams was the Robert Ludlum of his time,...one heroic man, or a small group of crusading individuals, in a struggle against powerful adversaries whose intentions and motivations are evil, adversaries capable of using political and economic mechanisms in frightening ways - this is the story of The Man With the Clubfoot!A great read!
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Mostly pretty charming By Douglas J. Bassett Pretty much the best Buchan novel John Buchan never wrote -- it certainly owes a great deal to John Buchan's work. Protagonist's brother works for British intelligence and disappears behind German lines in WW 1. Protagonist, through one of those improbable coincidences that only seem to arise in books like this, gains the opportunity to get into Germany and search for him personally. And then a bunch of stuff happens.It has it's faults. A lot of the very early thriller writers were still learning how to write the genre, and you can see that in this book -- Williams does some odd things that seem counter-productive to his story. I think he just didn't know any better. So, while I can go along with the coincidence that starts everything rolling there's another, major coincidence in here that functions as a deus ex machine for the characters and is just silly beyond belief. Williams breaks out his pov at the climax, which accomplishes nothing I can see and dissipates a lot of the narrative energy we'd been building toward. The climax happens too early, starts out strong but peters out unsatisfyingly, and we've still got a second, lesser climax to get through until the end.All that said, this is a charming book, and for much of it's run is frankly better than a lot of the Buchan it was obviously inspired by. The lead character is charming, and I think reacts more or less appropriately, given his situation. He's certainly no superman, there are convincing passages where he's too tired to think straight, or stuck with little options and has to make a bad decision, etc. I liked the villain very much, and can't help but wonder if Hammett didn't read this at some point before writing THE MALTESE FALCON.If the end of the book had been better written I would've called this a flat out classic, full stop. It's not quite that, like a lot of genre efforts from this period there are basic structural problems that stop it from being top-rank. It is quite good, though, recommended.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Four Stars By AP OUI This an interesting story about the lead up to WW2.
See all 3 customer reviews... The Man with the Clubfoot, by Valentine WilliamsThe Man with the Clubfoot, by Valentine Williams PDF
The Man with the Clubfoot, by Valentine Williams iBooks
The Man with the Clubfoot, by Valentine Williams ePub
The Man with the Clubfoot, by Valentine Williams rtf
The Man with the Clubfoot, by Valentine Williams AZW
The Man with the Clubfoot, by Valentine Williams Kindle
Tidak ada komentar:
Posting Komentar