The Peculiar Major: An Almost Incredible Story (Classic Reprint)

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Although my name appears on the title-page of this book as the author thereof, the reader will discover, on glancing at the very first line, that the story is told by the gallant Maj or himself. The names and chapter-headings are mine; the punctuation is mine; certain editorial trimmings are mine: for the rest, I must deprecate both praise or censure .

In any case, the identity of the real narrator and central figure will, I venture to assert, never be revealed. He himself is the most modest of men - a quality as conspicuous in true soldiers as in true politicians. He has no desire for per sonal publicity, fame, notoriety - call it what you will. The schemes he formulated, the humilia tions he endured, the adventures he courted, even to throwing deliberate dice with Death himself - all was done in the eternally sacred cause of Humanity.

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