On the Great War blog, George Simmers
discusses Philip MacDonald's novel
Patrol (1927; films 1929, 1934). The talented MacDonald is probably best known for
The List of Adrian Messenger (1959,
film 1963) and
Warrant for X (aka
The Nursemaid Who Disappeared, adapted as the film
Twenty-Three Paces to Baker Street [dir Henry Hathaway, 1956]).
Simmers
follows up this post with speculation on the identity of a character in John Buchan's Richard Hannay novel
Mr. Standfast (1919): Could it be a thinly disguised D. H. Lawrence?
About the image: Victor McLaglen in The Lost Patrol (adapted from Philip MacDonald's Patrol, dir. John Ford, 1934)
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