The Phantom Regiment: or, Stories of "Ours"
James Grant
Sep 2026 · Aeneas Press
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Officers of a British regiment, known to its own men simply as "Ours", trade stories across the years between Spain, the Caucasus and the Crimea: a month's romance on the Andalusian coast, a guarda costa and a smuggler, a Circassian captain and the hussars of Tenginski, the adventures of a night told three ways, a legend of Fife, and at last the tale of the phantom regiment seen on its midnight march. James Grant wrote more than fifty novels of Scottish soldiering and had served in the army himself; the military detail is precise, and the ghost story is kept for the end. Fifty-eight plates by Sorolla and Goya, from orange groves and fishing returns to masked men on the Andalusian road, carry the Spanish light and disguise that run through these soldiers' tales.
Officers of a British regiment, known to its own men simply as "Ours", trade stories across the years between Spain, the Caucasus and the Crimea: a month's romance on the Andalusian coast, a guarda costa and a smuggler, a Circassian captain and the hussars of Tenginski, the adventures of a night ...
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James Grant (1822-1887) was a Scottish novelist and historian born in Edinburgh, the son of an officer of the Gordon Highlanders and, through his mother, a distant relation of Sir Walter Scott. He spent part of his boyhood in Newfoundland, held a commission in the 62nd Foot from 1840 to 1843, and in 1852 founded the National Association for the Vindication of Scottish Rights. He wrote some fifty-six novels, chiefly of soldiering and Scottish history, alongside regimental histories. His works include The Romance of War, The Phantom Regiment and Jane Seton.
James Grant (1822-1887) was a Scottish novelist and historian born in Edinburgh, the son of an officer of the Gordon Highlanders and, through his mother, a distant relation of Sir Walter Scott. He spent part of his boyhood in Newfoundland, held a commission in the 62nd Foot from 1840 to 1843, and...
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