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Percival Christopher Wren (1875 - 1941) was an English writer of adventure fiction mostly dealing with colonial soldiering in Africa. He is remembered best for Beau Geste, a much filmed book of 1924, involving the French Foreign Legion in North Africa. 'The Dust That Was Barren' is a strange tale of a peculiar incident in the French Foreign Legion. Commandant Le Sage comes across a legionnaire who has fallen behind his comrades and has laid himself down in the sand, saying he is dying....

Cupid in Africa follows the unlikely journey of Bertram Greene, an intellectual misfit who joins the British Army to impress his father. Thrown into the brutal realities of war in East Africa, he must prove himself in battle. A humorous yet intense military adventure.