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Tunes of Glory (novel)

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Tunes of Glory
First edition (UK)
AuthorJames Kennaway
LanguageEnglish
GenreDrama
PublisherPutnam (UK)
Harper & Brothers (US)
Publication date
1956
Publication placeUnited Kingdom
Media typePrint

Tunes of Glory is a 1956 novel by the British writer James Kennaway. It portrays the peacetime tensions in a Highland regiment shortly after the Second World War.

Adaptation

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In 1960 it was made into the film Tunes of Glory directed by Ronald Neame and starring Alec Guinness and John Mills, with Kennaway adapting his own novel for the screenplay.[1]

References

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  1. ^ Goble p.256

Bibliography

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  • Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.
  • Watson, Roderick. The Literature of Scotland: The Twentieth Century. Macmillan, 2006.