A Call to Arms

Autor*innen

• Allan Mallinson

Parameter

• 376 Seiten
• 14 Lesestunden

• Belletristik
• Historische Romane
• Historisches Thema
• Kriege
• Kriegsliteratur

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<b>THE FOURTH SPLENDID MATTHEW HERVEY ADVENTURE...</b> It is 1819 and Matthew Hervey, in mourning for his beloved wife and disillusioned with military life, is kicking his heels in Rome when a chance encounter with an eminent English poet leads him to rethink his future. Spurred on, he is reunited with his much depleted regiment, the 6th Light Dragoons, and immediately charged with raising a new troop, for India beckons once again. But what begins as a relatively simple operation becomes a dark and dangerous march through the jungle as Hervey and his ill-equipped and inexperienced soldiers race to confront the Burmese warboats massing on the borders...

• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• Einband: Paperback