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Collins Classics: The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan
Category: Classics | Series: Collins Classics
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'I snapped the switch, but there was nobody there. Then I saw something in the far corner which made me drop my cigar and fall into a cold sweat.' When Richard Hannay is warned of an assassination plot that has the potent ...Show more
Greenmantle by Kate (EDT) John; MacDonald Buchan
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
"Greenmantle" is a spy novel written by John Buchan and published in 1916. Set during World War One, "Greenmantle" is the second of the 5-book series of the Richard Hannay novels which immediately follow "The thirty-nine steps", set a few months before the beginning of the war. In "Greenmantle", Richard ...Show more
Greenmantle by John Buchan
Category: Classics | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
In "Greenmantle" (1916) Richard Hannay, hero of "The Thirty-Nine Steps", travels across war-torn Europe in search of a German plot and an Islamic Messiah. He is joined by three more of Buchan's heroes: Peter Pienaar, the old Boer Scout; John S. Blenkiron, the American determined to fight the Kaiser; and ...Show more
Greenmantle by John Buchan
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
"Greenmantle" continues the thrilling adventures of Richard Hannay from convalescence following the Battle of Loos, back to London for a vital meeting at the Foreign Office and thence on a top-secret mission across war-torn German-occupied Europe. His mission; to neutralise and destroy a cunning and pot ...Show more
Greenmantle by John Buchan
Category: Classics | Series: Collector's Library
Richard Hannay is called in to investigate rumours of an uprising in the Muslim world, and undertakes a perilous journey through enemy territory to meet up with his friend Sandy in Constantinople. Once there, he and his friends must thwart the Germans' plans to use religion to help them win the war, cli ...Show more
John MacNab by John Buchan
Category: Classics
In 1925, John Buchan published his second most famous novel, "John MacNab"; three high-flying men - a barrister, a cabinet minister and a banker - are suffering from boredom. They concoct a plan to cure it. They inform three Scottish estates that they will poach from each two stags and a salmon in a giv ...Show more
The 39 Steps by John Buchan; John M. Burns (Illustrator); Jim Lavery (Illustrator)
Category: Graphic Novels | Series: Classics Illustrated Ser.
May 1914: Europe is on the brink of war. London is riddled with spies. Richard Hannay has just returned from Rhosesia, and intends to begin a new, quiet, sedentary life. But a shady man named Franklin Scudder calls on him for help. Scudder is a freelance spy who has just uncovered a German plot to murde ...Show more
The Battle of the Somme: The First and Second Phase by John Buchan
Category: History
Published as a short work just a year after the battle, John Buchan's account of the first two phases of the Battle of the Somme, one of bloodiest battles of the Great War, leap off the page a century on. Buchan goes beyond the first day of the Somme to provide a valuable account of the extended battle ...Show more