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The story had originally been commissioned for the Saturday Evening Post , but their editor George Horace Lorimer declined it on completion. At the Master Apartments, Mundy had written Black Light , and while he was unable to get it serialised, it was published by both Bobbs-Merril and Hutchinson in October , to mixed reviews. Serialised in The American Weekly from October to January , it was described by Taves as "perhaps the most intensely mythic and symbolic of all Mundy's work". Mundy had also revived his Tros stories, producing four novellettes featuring the character which were published in Adventure from March to October He and Dawn married shortly after in Campeche City.

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He sent it to publishers under a pseudonym, but at the time it was rejected; it would be posthumously published as I Say Sunrise in Amid the economic problems of the Great Depression , Mundy began seeking out alternative forms of income to supplement his writing, beginning to give occasional lectures. In the summer of they had arrived back in the U.

The certifying doctor attributed his death to myocardial insufficiency brought on by diabetes. Mundy was married five times during his life. Mundy was fascinated by mysticism , and explored various religions throughout his life; after a brief involvement in Christian Science he joined the Theosophical movement and became very interested in Buddhism. Mundy also had strong political views, expressing contempt for the British establishment and promoting an egalitarian ethos, although not so far as to become a socialist.

Roosevelt 's New Deal although in the final years of his life became more politically conservative. Mundy believed in the equality of men and women. Over the course of his career, Mundy produced 47 novels, novelettes and short stories, and 23 articles, as well as one non-fiction book. During his lifetime, Mundy's work was often compared with that of H. Rider Haggard and Rudyard Kipling , both of whose careers overshadowed his own. Mundy's work witnessed a posthumous growth of fan interest, [] with Taves describing this as a "devoted but necessarily limited following".

Day compiled the first bibliography of his work, later releasing a revised version in Grant published an edited collection of Mundy's work, Talbot Mundy, Messenger of Destiny , which also featured a bibliography and essays from two fantasy authors, Darrel Crombie and Fritz Leiber. The project was shelved after the financers, Tri-Star , pulled out following the commercial failure of Kaufman's The Right Stuff. Gaut, who ran it until his death.

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Mundy's work has been very influential on later writers. Those who have cited him as an influence on their own work include Robert E.

Hoffman Price , Robert A. Heinlein , Fritz Leiber , and H. A bibliography of Mundy's published books was included by Ellis in his biography.

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On page 43, Jimgrim takes a messenger to a bar and makes sure he drinks plenty of arrack so he won't be liable to remember what the delivered message was about. This is a fictitious tome of sayings of a fictitious lama. The dugpa leader forces Ramsden to drink some soma. Arrack is an Indonesian alcoholic drink. Devil's Guard was first published as a hardbound book by Dell using the Delacorte imprint in Peter rated it liked it Jun 20, Hancock here mistakenly thinks the songs are from Handel; George Frideric Handel was a German composer known for his organ concertos.

I would pound out stuff on the typewriter and Jeff would come home, look my stuff over, say it was rotten, which it was, and make me go ahead doing more of it. Finally, under the stint of his irony I wrote a story and sold it to Frank Munsey. As if the word were almost spoken in my ear I heard "Death roosts in the Khyber while he preens his wings. Attention to timing, tone, feel, mood, and atmosphere, including the olfactory senses, contribute enormously to all Mundy's stories, whatever the region He was able to describe locales and foreign beliefs with a convincing touch of authenticity, combining knowledge from other books, popular legends, and his own travel writings and friendships with a vivid imagination, leaving the reader unable to discern what was fact and what was fiction.

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Based for most of his life in the United States, he also wrote under the pseudonym of Walter Galt. Best known as the author of King of the Khyber Rifles and the Jimgrim series, much of his work was published in pulp magazines. Other books in the series. Books by Talbot Mundy. Trivia About The Devil's Guard. No trivia or quizzes yet. Quotes from The Devil's Guard. They're incredibly expert psychologists.

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And they're just as keen on getting control of the whole world as, for instance, the Bolshevists are. They believe in their black science as enthusiastically as the Bolshevists believe in communism--much more enthusiastically, that is, than most Christians believe in Christianity. The White Lodge accepts chelas. Christians make converts and put them to work. Everybody with a bug in his head tries to rope in everybody else--so why not dugpas? I am perhaps a little wiser than I was, but it may be I am only lazy and afraid.

At any rate, it seems to me a waste of energy to try to learn what is beyond my understanding. I don't even understand my own religion. Although it is documented that ex-SS soldiers both joined the French Foreign Legion and fought in the French Indochina War [2] until approximately when France began to crack down, the book's claim that a unit was composed solely of Germans is unsupported by evidence presented by many Legion historians, records and books such as Bernard Fall 's Hell in a Very Small Place and Street Without Joy on the French Indochina War.

Skeptics have stated that the "Nazis in Indochina" myth came from communist bloc sources during the war. Elford claims his only contribution to the book is in the capacity of an editor, changing the names of soldiers and military verbiage. Critics however, point to the fact that much of the military power possessed by the characters is anachronistic. The access to military records should also allow for the exact tracing of units in which Wagemueller and his comrades served, but the name of Wagemueller's unit in eastern Europe, the 21st Special Partisanjaeger Commando, is mentioned in only Devil's Guard.

Supporters point to the fact that Elford is following Wagemueller's request that his details not be made traceable.

Critics also point to the serialization of the book it spawned two sequels, despite the fact the original ended towards the end of the war, days from Dien Bien Phu in according to the narrator. Wagemueller ends up fighting for the US later in the series, after spending time in Tibet his officers in New Caledonia. Specifically, Vanderberghe's use of Viet Minh 'pajama' uniforms' to walk right into Viet Minh camps to attack.

Devil's Guard was first published as a hardbound book by Dell using the Delacorte imprint in This was the only DG title released in this format.

It was subsequently released as a mass market paperback in originally published by New English Library in the UK in Reprinted,,,,,, It was never offered by Dell in the US. All three Devil's Guard books were reprinted by St.