Sergeant Lamb Novels — Robert Graves

The life of Sergeant Roger Lamb, a young Dubliner who served with the Royal Welch Fusiliers during the American War of Independence, was the subject of a novelistic enterprise originally published in two parts because of wartime paper shortages. The final result is a pair of picaresque novels concerned with the passions and frustrations of a distant war which mirrored many of Graves's own feelings for the Second World War which was happening around him. As an account of the struggle for independence, the horrors and excitements of war, the two novels were well reviewed and popular when published in the early Forties.