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Cupid in Africa

by Percival Christopher WREN (1875 - 1941)

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Bertram Greene, brilliant student, aesthete, intellectual and shy, decides to make his military father proud of him at last and joins the colonial Indian Army Reserve as a second Lieutenant at the start of Great War. Feeling a complete fish out of water, he is dispatched to India without any training whatsoever, and is expected to take charge of a company of native soldiers. He is then posted to East Africa to join the British fighting force there, and finds out what real soldiering means. This amusing, and at times harrowing tale gives a comprehensive description of the life and conditions of a soldier in the tropics, obviously written by someone who has experienced them. The author, P. C. Wren, is the author of the famous Beau Geste books. (Summary by Kevin Green)

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Listen next episodes of Cupid in Africa:
Baked , Baking , Bertram Invades Africa , Butindi , Finis , Food and Feeders , Love , Love and War , Military and Naval Manoeuvres, part 1 , Military and Naval Manoeuvres, part 2 , Mombasa , More Baking , M'paga , Mrs. Stayne-Brooker , Mrs. Stayne-Brooker Again , Of a Pudding , Reflections , Stein-Brucker Meets Berram Greene - and Death , Terra Marique Jactatus , The Bristol Bar , The Convoy , The Mombasa Club , Trial