title: Le Havre: A Riveting Expose for Our World Today: The French Reisistance World War II - A Historical War Romance Novel
author:  Pierre Gerard 
description: <b>"Books in Review II"</b> <b>- </b>The National Magazine of Vietnam Veterans of America<i><br />The VVA Veteran</i><br />vvabooks.wordpress.com<br /><br />Le Havre: A Riveting Expose For Our World Today <br />by Pierre Gerard<br /><br />Posted on September 25, 2015
zlib_text: THE ADVENTURES OF GERARD
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  THE ADVENTURES OF
  GERARD
  BY A. CONAN DOYLE
  
  THE ADVENTURES OF GERARD
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  PREFACE
  I hope that some readers may possibly be interested in these little tales
  of the Napoleonic soldiers to the extent of following them up to the
  springs from which they flow.  The age was rich in military material,
  some of it the most human and the most picturesque that I have ever read.
  Setting aside historical works or the biographies of the leaders there is a
  mass of evidence written by the actual fighting men themselves, which
  describes their feelings and their experiences, stated always from the point
  of view of the particular branch of the service to which they belonged.
  The Cavalry were particularly happy in their writers of memoirs.  Thus
  De Rocca in his "Memoires sur la guerre des Francais en Espagne" has
  given the narrative of a Hussar, while De Naylies in his "Memoires sur la
  guerre d'Espagne" gives the same campaigns from the point of view of the
  Dragoon.  Then we have th