Immortal Sergeant (novel)

Immortal Sergeant is a 1942 war novel by the British writer John Brophy.^[1] The novel is set during the North African campaign of the Second World War and seen through the eyes of a British corporal fighting across the Libyan desert whose comrade, a sergeant, is killed.

Film adaptation

In 1943 it was adapted into a Hollywood film Immortal Sergeant directed by John M. Stahl and starring Henry Fonda, Maureen O'Hara and Thomas Mitchell.^[2] The plot was then recycled for a 1951 film Fixed Bayonets! about American troops set during the Korean War.

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Watson, George & Willison, Ian R. The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature, Volume 4. CUP, 1972.

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