The Barefoot Sergeant

by Claude Lambert

Overview

This is a short story (2000 words) about a boy from the Edo group of Benin (now Nigeria) who enters the British Army in the 1930s. He gets promoted to the rank of sergeant and celebrates by having his statue made. But for the following generations, working for the British is not cool anymore: all the discourse is about independence. Soldiers like that young boy are forgotten, both in Britain and in their own country. Their statues get melted by the thousands.Nobody cares, and even the Edo language slowly disappears.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940032915614
Publisher:	Claude Lambert
Publication date:	12/02/2011
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
File size:	38 KB

About the Author

Claude Lambert is born in Belgium, worked in France as a geochemist and retired in the United States to be close to the American part of her family .
She published in French a novel and a series of children stories. She also co-authored a political book illustrated by Virginia Haggard-Leirens, the author of "My life with Chagall."
Her recent books in English are distributed by Ingram and can be found easily on Amazon or Barnes & Noble. "On Pets and Men" are humorous very short stories. "Vague Souvenir" is a World War 2 fiction. "Crimes of the Balance Sheet" is a mystery book.