Sinbad the Soldier

by P. C. Wren Book 2 in the Sinbad Dysart series.

First published 1935

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Sinbad Dysart exchanges the merchant service for soldiering and must adapt his independent temperament to military discipline. Training, regimental loyalties and frontier danger expose him to new forms of command and companionship, while unresolved questions from his earlier life complicate the relationships he tries to build.

The second Sinbad novel treats the making of a soldier as more than learning weapons and drill. Sinbad must decide when obedience is honourable, when it becomes cowardice and what loyalty requires when institutions protect the wrong people. The book carries Wren’s familiar interest in concealed identity into the British military world rather than the French Foreign Legion.