Kitcheners Army: The Full Story of a Great Achievement
()
About this ebook
Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace was born on the 1st April 1875 in Greenwich, London. Leaving school at 12 because of truancy, by the age of fifteen he had experience; selling newspapers, as a worker in a rubber factory, as a shoe shop assistant, as a milk delivery boy and as a ship’s cook. By 1894 he was engaged but broke it off to join the Infantry being posted to South Africa. He also changed his name to Edgar Wallace which he took from Lew Wallace, the author of Ben-Hur. In Cape Town in 1898 he met Rudyard Kipling and was inspired to begin writing. His first collection of ballads, The Mission that Failed! was enough of a success that in 1899 he paid his way out of the armed forces in order to turn to writing full time. By 1904 he had completed his first thriller, The Four Just Men. Since nobody would publish it he resorted to setting up his own publishing company which he called Tallis Press. In 1911 his Congolese stories were published in a collection called Sanders of the River, which became a bestseller. He also started his own racing papers, Bibury’s and R. E. Walton’s Weekly, eventually buying his own racehorses and losing thousands gambling. A life of exceptionally high income was also mirrored with exceptionally large spending and debts. Wallace now began to take his career as a fiction writer more seriously, signing with Hodder and Stoughton in 1921. He was marketed as the ‘King of Thrillers’ and they gave him the trademark image of a trilby, a cigarette holder and a yellow Rolls Royce. He was truly prolific, capable not only of producing a 70,000 word novel in three days but of doing three novels in a row in such a manner. It was in, estimating that by 1928 one in four books being read was written by Wallace, for alongside his famous thrillers he wrote variously in other genres, including science fiction, non-fiction accounts of WWI which amounted to ten volumes and screen plays. Eventually he would reach the remarkable total of 170 novels, 18 stage plays and 957 short stories. Wallace became chairman of the Press Club which to this day holds an annual Edgar Wallace Award, rewarding ‘excellence in writing’. Diagnosed with diabetes his health deteriorated and he soon entered a coma and died of his condition and double pneumonia on the 7th of February 1932 in North Maple Drive, Beverly Hills. He was buried near his home in England at Chalklands, Bourne End, in Buckinghamshire.
Edgar Wallace
Edgar Wallace (1875-1932) was a London-born writer who rose to prominence during the early twentieth century. With a background in journalism, he excelled at crime fiction with a series of detective thrillers following characters J.G. Reeder and Detective Sgt. (Inspector) Elk. Wallace is known for his extensive literary work, which has been adapted across multiple mediums, including over 160 films. His most notable contribution to cinema was the novelization and early screenplay for 1933’s King Kong.
Read more from Edgar Wallace
Big Book of Christmas Tales: 250+ Short Stories, Fairytales and Holiday Myths & Legends Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Terrible People Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Crimson Circle Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5The Angel of Terror Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Fourth Plague Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA pénzhamisító - The Forger Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA fekete kísértet - The Black Abbott Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A sárga nárciszok rejtélye - The Daffodil Mystery Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Edgar Wallace: The Complete Works Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Plague, Pestilence & Apocalypse MEGAPACK ®: 18 Tales of Doom Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A bosszúálló - The Avenger Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA 13-as szoba - Room 13 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA három tölgy titka - The Three Oak Mystery Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA mindentudó - The Man Who Knew Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA smaragd nyaklánc - The Square Emerald Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Related to Kitcheners Army
Related ebooks
The Standard History Of The War - Volume 3 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe German Army from Mobilisation to First Ypres Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAn Anzac on the Western Front: The Personal Reflections of an Australian Infantryman from 1916 to 1918 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Nine Divisions in Champagne: The Second Battle of Marne Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsOn Land and Sea at the Dardanelles (WWI Centenary Series) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings5 Minute History Leaders Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Great War on the Western Front: A Short History Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Kaiser's U-Boat Assault on America: Germany's Great War Gamble in the First World War Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe World in Chains (WWI Centenary Series) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Somme: Death of a Generation Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Final Advance, September to November 1918 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Standard History Of The War - Volume 1 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTrue Stories from World War I Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSheldrake: Memories of a World War II Gunner Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsCarnage: The German Front in World War One Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Battle of the Somme Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5101 Amazing Facts about The First World War Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Cambrai Campaign, 1917 Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The German Army on the Somme, 1914–1916 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Germans on the Somme Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5West Country Regiments on the Somme Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe War With Hitler's Navy Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5THE GREAT WAR COLLECTION – The Battle of Jutland, The Battle of the Somme & Nelson's History of the War (9 Books in One Volume): Selected Works from the Acclaimed War Correspondent about World War I Greatest Battles & Strategies , Including His Personal Perspective and Experience During the War Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPoems of the Great War - Published on Behalf of the Prince of Wales's National Relief Fund (WWI Centenary Series) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe BEF Campaign on the Aisne 1914: 'In the Company of Ghosts' Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5World War One - Ultimate Collection (Nine-Book Collection) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDays to Remember: The British Empire in the Great War I Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTommies: The British Army in the Trenches Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAn Anthology of World War One, 1914–1918: Extracts from Selected Titles Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Modern History For You
The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Night to Remember: The Sinking of the Titanic Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5The God Delusion Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Voices from Chernobyl Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed and Fail Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Fifties Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/577 Days of February: Living and Dying in Ukraine, Told by the Nation’s Own Journalists Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Profiles in Courage: Deluxe Modern Classic Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Devil's Notebook Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Gaza: An Inquest into Its Martyrdom Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Fall and Rise: The Story of 9/11 Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Flu: The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus That Caused It Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5About Face: The Odyssey of an American Warrior Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/518 Tiny Deaths: The Untold Story of Frances Glessner Lee and the Invention of Modern Forensics Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Plot to Kill King: The Truth Behind the Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Little Red Book Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5What Every Person Should Know About War Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Story of Christianity: Volume 2: The Reformation to the Present Day Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Shakespeare: The World as Stage Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Related categories
Reviews for Kitcheners Army
0 ratings0 reviews