Patrol (novel)

Patrol is a 1927 war novel by the British writer Philip MacDonald. It is set in Mesopotamia during the First World War, focusing on the psychological strain on a patrol of British soldiers when they become lost in the desert and surrounded by the enemy. It is sometimes known as Lost Patrol.

Patrol
First edition (US)
AuthorPhilip MacDonald
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
GenreMilitary fiction
Set inMesopotamia (1914–1918)
PublisherWilliam Collins, Sons (UK)
Harper & Brothers (US)
Publication date
1927
Media typePrint
Pages245
OCLC8021660

Adaptations

The novel was directly adapted into films on two occasions: a 1929 British silent film Lost Patrol directed by Walter Summers and starring Cyril McLaglen,[1] and a 1934 American film The Lost Patrol directed by John Ford and starring Victor McLaglen, Boris Karloff and Reginald Denny.

The 1943 American film Sahara was based partly on Patrol, but also on an incident in the similar 1936 Soviet film The Thirteen. Sahara was remade as Last of the Comanches in 1953 and the American-Australian Sahara in 1995.

References

  1. Low p.402

Bibliography

  • Low, Rachael. The History of the British Film, 1918-1929. George Allen & Unwin, 1971.


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