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Greenmantle (Oxford World's Classics) (Paperback)

by John Buchan (Author), Kate Macdonald (Editor) "I had just finished breakfast and was filling my pipe when I got Bullivant's telegram ..." (more)
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  • Paperback: 320 pages
  • Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks; New edition edition (2 Sep 1999)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0192836846
  • ISBN-13: 978-0192836847
  • Product Dimensions: 19.2 x 12.8 x 1.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 467,048 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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In Greenmantle (1916) Richard Hannay, hero of The Thirty-Nine Steps, travels across war-torn Europe in search of a German plot and an Islamic Messiah. He is joined by three more of Buchan's heroes: Peter Pienaar, the old Boer Scout; John S. Blenkiron, the American determined to fight the Kaiser; and Sandy Arbuthnot, Greenmantle himself, modelled on Lawrence of Arabia. The intrepid four move in disguise through Germany to Constantinople and the Russian border to face their enemies - the grotesque Stumm and the evil beauty of Hilda von Einem. In this classic espionage adventure Buchan shows his mastery of the thriller and the Stevensonian romance, and also his enormous knowledge of world politics before and during the First World War. This edition illuminates for the first time the many levels beneath the stirring plot and romantic characters.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Big fun, 10 Mar 2008
By Didier (Ghent, Belgium) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Greenmantle (Wordsworth Classics) (Paperback)
I can only concur with what other reviewers before me have said: this is a cracking yarn about Richard Hannay & three of his friends thwarting Germany's efforts to launch a jihad against the Allies during World War I. Nighttime pursuits, fiendish Germans, escapes in the nick of time,... it's all there and plenty more. It's also full of improbabilities, but I for one had no difficulties to grant a willing suspension of disbelief to this extraordinary tale of adventure.

'Greenmantle' does contain some obvious propaganda. In 1916, when Buchan wrote 'Greenmantle', this no doubt made perfect sense and was in keeping with the times, but now, almost a century later, it creates a strange effect. For instance, throughout the novel the virtues of the English gentleman - of which Hannay and co. are prime examples - are extolled: cold-blooded, resourceful, courageous and even cheerful under all circumstances. Which explains how, in the context of the novel, it's quite normal that Richard Hannay joins the cavalry charge at Erzerum with a broken arm

Likewise, the horrors of war are all in a day's work for the likes of Richard Hannay. It's somehow charming (endearing even) but also mostly sad to read how for instance the battle at Loos is referred to by Hannay as 'the show at Loos'. Out of mere curiosity I looked it up: Loos was the first battle in which the British used poison gas against the Germans, and 20.000 British men were killed at Loos between September 25th and 28th 1915 (Robert Graves being one of the lucky few who lived to tell the tale...).
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16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Gripping tale of the Great Game, 7 Sep 2000
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For students of the Great War the Middle Eastern campaigns represent an eclectic mixture of excitement and romantic notions of great religious passion, and in Greenmantle Buchan takes us on a riveting romp through German-occupied Europe in a race against time to prevent a German sponsored Jihad rousing Muslim opinion against the Entente. Written in 1915 to reflect very real contemporary fears of a Jihad and the security of the British Empire, which was governed largely on prestige factors, Buchan has woven a fantastic tale which transports the Great War student back in time and makes him feel as if he riding with the cavalry into Erzerum at the end of the book. Wonderfully realistic, with the breadth of knowledge displayed by Buchan betraying his later role as Director of Propaganda in 1917.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars The best Buchan, bar none..., 21 Nov 2008
By W. Rolls "Tree Frog" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Greenmantle (Pocket Penguin Classics) (Paperback)
Read "the 39 steps", and then read this. A fantastic development of Richard Hannay, and a brilliant way of passing a wet afternoon. Again, this book will probably find it's way onto the book shelves of all my male teen aged relatives. In my opinion, this is the best book Buchan wrote.
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