Sergeant Lamb of the Ninth

May 14, 2025 2:25 PM

Author:Robert Graves

Robert Graves first came across the name of Roger Lamb in 1914, when Graves was an English officer instructing his platoon in regimental history. Lamb was a British soldier who had served his king during the American War of Independence, and whose claim to a footnote in history is that he managed to escape twice from American prison camps. When Graves went to America in the 1930s, he remembered Sergeant Lamb, investigated his story and created this fictionalized memoir telling Lamb's story from his Irish childhood to war and revolution, weaving a mesmerizing tale of courage and adventure.

Reviews

Among the most generous, self-willed, unseemly and brilliant writers of our century

—— The New York Times

Peter Carey, García Márquez, Alexander Solzhenitsyn: André Brink must be considered with that class of writer

—— The Guardian

Strikingly effective

—— The Times

A brutal, harrowing, desperately sincere piece of writing

—— Sunday Times

Part romance, part mystery, this elegant debut captures the danger - and refuge - of love in Stalin's era

—— Good Housekeeping

Highly readable saga... for serious balletomanes.

—— Independent

Deft exploration of the wondrous and sad inscrutability of the human heart.

—— New York Times

Yan is a keen observer of the cruel and the magical, and has a fine sense of the permeable line between high hilarity and Kafkan nightmare.

—— Waterbridge Review

Masterful

—— Lancashire Evening Post

Masterful novel… Spare, beautifully understated prose…

—— Pam Norfolk , UK Regional Press Syndication

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