This volume contains the 18 adventures (in chronological order of publication, including the last one, The Marriage of the Brigadier), of one of Arthur Conan Doyle's most beloved character: Brigadier Gerard. All with the original 40+ illustrations prepared for the beautiful original editions.

It also contains a novel, Uncle Bernac, in which Gerard appears as a major character in this short novel, which deals with the return of an exiled French aristocrat.

Finally, it includes the short story ""A Foreign Office Romance", not a Gerard story but clearly prefigures the series in structure, character and theme.

This French officer of the Napoleonic army, is considered one of Doyle's most iconic characters, together with Sherlock Holmes and Professor Challenger.

The complete stories included are:

BOOK ONE: THE EXPLOITS OF BRIGADIER GERARD
1. HOW THE BRIGADIER WON HIS MEDAL
2. HOW THE BRIGADIER HELD THE KING
3. HOW THE KING HELD THE BRIGADIER
4. HOW THE BRIGADIER SLEW THE BROTHERS OF AJACCIO
5. HOW THE BRIGADIER CAME TO THE CASTLE OF GLOOM
6. HOW THE BRIGADIER TOOK THE FIELD AGAINST THE MARSHAL MILLEFLEURS
7. HOW THE BRIGADIER WAS TEMPTED BY THE DEVIL
8. HOW THE BRIGADIER PLAYED FOR A KINGDOM
BOOK TWO: THE ADVENTURES OF GERARD

9. HOW THE BRIGADIER SLEW THE FOX
[THE CRIME OF THE BRIGADIER]
10. HOW BRIGADIER GERARD LOST HIS EAR
11. HOW THE BRIGADIER SAVED THE ARMY
12. HOW THE BRIGADIER RODE TO MINSK
13. HOW THE BRIGADIER BORE HIMSELF AT WATERLOO—
THE STORY OF THE FOREST INN
14. HOW THE BRIGADIER BORE HIMSELEF AT WATERLOO—
THE STORY OF THE NINE PRUSSIAN HORSEMEN
15. HOW THE BRIGADIER TRIUMPHED IN ENGLAND
16. HOW THE BRIGADIER CAPTURED SARAGOSSA
(HOW THE BRIGADIER JOINED THE HUSSARS OF CONFLANS)
17. THE LAST ADVENTURE OF THE BRIGADIER
18. THE MARRIAGE OF THE BRIGADIER

BOOK THREE: UNCLE BERNAC (a novel):
A MEMORY OF THE EMPIRE

BOOK FOUR
A Foreign Office Romance (short story)