James Norman Hall

Myteriet på Bounty är baserad på den historiska händelsen 1789, där en del av besättningen på det engelska fartyget H. M. S. Bounty med understyrman Fletcher Christian i spetsen begick myteri mot sin kapten William Bligh. I romanen av Nordhoff & Hall följer vi den fiktiva jag-berättaren Roger Byam (baserad på Peter Heywood), som är en ung kadett, som följer med på Bountys seglats mot Tahiti, där han ska samla information om de inföddas språk. Genom Byam får vi höra om kapten Blighs orättfärdiga behandling av sitt manskap, om myteriet och om hans eget och andra av besättningsmedlemmarnas efterföljande dramatiska öden. Myteriet på Bounty har filmatiserats flera gånger, bland annat 1962 med Marlon Brandon i rollen som Fletcher Christian. ”Myteriet på Bounty består av allt det material, som äventyrsromaner är gjorda av. Dess historiska noggrannhet gör den inte mindre spännande. Berättarstilen är intressant med sin äkta 1700-talskänsla och är samtidigt uppfriskande charmerande och vacker.” – New York Times ”Inte bara en berättelse om havet; en berättelse om livet självt, om de varierande aspekterna av gott och ont i mänskligheten.” – Boston Transcript ”En helt och alldeles ovanlig och fullständigt tillfredsställande bok.” – Saturday Review

It was on a cool, starlit evening, early in September, 1916, that I first met Drew of Massachusetts, and actually began my adventures as a prospective member of the Escadrille Am ricaine. We had sailed from New York by the same boat, had made our applications for enlistment in the Foreign Legion on the same day, without being aware of each other's existence; and in Paris, while waiting for our papers, we had gone, every evening, for dinner, to the same large and gloomy-looking restaurant in the neighborhood of the Seine. As for the restaurant, we frequented it, not assuredly because of the quality of the food. We might have dined better and more cheaply elsewhere. But there was an air of vanished splendor, of faded magnificence, about the place which, in the capital of a warring nation, appealed to both of us. Every evening the tables were laid with spotless linen and shining silver. The wineglasses caught the light from the tarnished chandeliers in little points of color. At the dinner-hour, a half-dozen ancient serving-men silently took their places about the room. There was not a sound to be heard except the occasional far-off honk of a motor or the subdued clatter of dishes from the kitchens. The serving-men, even the tables and the empty chairs, seemed to be listening, to be waiting for the guests who never came. Rarely were there more than a dozen diners-out during the course of an evening. There was something mysterious in these elaborate preparations, and something rather fine about them as well; but one thought, not without a touch of sadness, of the old days when there had been laughter and lights and music, sparkling wines and brilliant talk, and how those merrymakers had gone, many of them, long ago to the wars.

Kitchener's Mob is a classic English history text by James Norman Hall dealing with the life and times of Lord Kitchener. This brief narrative is by no means a complete record of life in a battalion of one of Lord Kitchener's first armies. It is, rather, a story in outline, a mere suggestion of that life as it is lived in the British lines along the western front. If those who read gain thereby a more intimate view of trench warfare, and of the men who are so gallantly and cheerfully laying down their lives for England, the purpose of the writer will have been accomplished.

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