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Blood and Sand
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Blood and Sand is a 1987 Historical Fiction novel by Rosemary Sutcliff. During The Napoleonic Wars, Private Thomas Keith of the 78th Highlanders is taken prisoner in Ottoman Egypt. He befriends Tussun Bey, the younger son of the Viceroy Muhammed Ali, and serves their family as a cavalry officer through a power struggle in Egypt and a war in Arabia. It is Very Loosely Based on a True Story.Takarazuka Revue adapted the novel into a 2008 musical called Love and Death in Arabia or Red Hot Sea.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Not to be confused with Spartacus: Blood and Sand. | |
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Anyone Can Die | |
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Anyone Can Die: Zeid, Thomas, Anoud, Tussun. | |
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Artistic License – History: Thomas's fellow-convert Osman is inspired by a real person, but his English name wasn't Donald MacLeod. He became a dragoman well-known to British travellers, not a doctor. | |
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Brave Scot: Thomas is a private of the 78th Highlanders who started life as an Edinburgh gunsmith, but he also has talents in riding, sharpshooting and swordsmanship. The Ottomans decide he's Cavalry Officer material and he ends up as governor of Medina. | |
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Breaching the Wall | |
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Breaching the Wall: The Egyptian expedition mines Medina's inner citadel and Thomas is first through the breach. It's one of the plot points attested by historical sources. | |
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Beauty Is Never Tarnished: Averted. Anoud loses a couple of fingers in the sack of Medina. | |
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