Trooper Jackson's Story
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: good, worn/faded. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
A soldier's voice echoes across the ages in Trooper Jackson's Story, Brian Thompson's richly imagined account of a common man caught in the grinding machinery of nineteenth-century military life. Narrated in the vernacular of a rank-and-file trooper, the novel chronicles the experiences of Jackson — a man of modest origins thrust into the harsh realities of regimental service, colonial campaigns, and the brutal social hierarchies of the Victorian British Army. Thompson renders the period with unflinching authenticity, capturing both the camaraderie of the barracks and the callousness of an empire that regards its foot soldiers as expendable instruments of conquest. Thompson's prose is deceptively plain, mirroring the voice of his unreliable yet deeply human narrator, while the novel's deeper currents argue persuasively about class, duty, and the cost of loyalty to a nation that rarely returns it in kind. Published by the distinguished house of Victor Gollancz, Trooper Jackson's Story stands as a quietly radical work of historical fiction — one that rehabilitates the forgotten common soldier and asks, with unsettling directness, who truly pays the price of empire.
Author: Brian Thompson
Format: Hardback
Published: 1979, Victor Gollancz Ltd
Genre: Historical fiction
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: good, worn/faded. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
A soldier's voice echoes across the ages in Trooper Jackson's Story, Brian Thompson's richly imagined account of a common man caught in the grinding machinery of nineteenth-century military life. Narrated in the vernacular of a rank-and-file trooper, the novel chronicles the experiences of Jackson — a man of modest origins thrust into the harsh realities of regimental service, colonial campaigns, and the brutal social hierarchies of the Victorian British Army. Thompson renders the period with unflinching authenticity, capturing both the camaraderie of the barracks and the callousness of an empire that regards its foot soldiers as expendable instruments of conquest. Thompson's prose is deceptively plain, mirroring the voice of his unreliable yet deeply human narrator, while the novel's deeper currents argue persuasively about class, duty, and the cost of loyalty to a nation that rarely returns it in kind. Published by the distinguished house of Victor Gollancz, Trooper Jackson's Story stands as a quietly radical work of historical fiction — one that rehabilitates the forgotten common soldier and asks, with unsettling directness, who truly pays the price of empire.