An Act Of Courage: (Matthew Hervey Book 7) - Couverture rigide

Mallinson, Allan

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0593053400 ISBN 13 : 9780593053409

Editeur : Bantam Press, 2005

A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture :

'Mallinson's descriptions of what it's like to be on campaign are as compelling, vivid and plausible as in any war novel I've ever read.' Telegraph

 

Christmas 1826 finds Matthew Hervey of the 6th Light Dragoons alone and a prisoner.

Captured by the Spanish, he is locked up in the notorious fortress of Badajoz, with little means of outside communication, his Prayer Book his only mental sustenance.

 

He must escape, but as Hervey lays his plans his thoughts return to 1812, when as a young cornet he was here with Wellington's Peninsular Army.Having survived the terrible retreat to Corunna, Hervey and the Sixth had gone on to endure three more years of fighting - only to be stalled at Badajoz.

 

Badajoz: a fortress of huge strategic importance, where two sieges had already failed, and where French resistance was at its bloodiest.No one - from the Duke of Wellington to the most lowly cornet - was in any doubt that in order to defeat Napoleon they must carry the day.As the young Hervey and his comrades prepared for the third and final attack on the fortress, the only options left were death or glory.

 

What Hervey cannot know, as he paces his prison cell fourteen years later, is that in Lisbon, his close friends - including the beautiful Isabella Delgado - are rushing to his aid.The escape they plan is audacious in the extreme ...

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Badajoz: Christmas 1826

Matthew Hervey of the 6th Light Dragoons is a prisoner of the Spanish, incarcerated in the infamous fortress of Badajoz.

As he plans his escape, his thoughts return to the year 1812 when he was a cornet in Wellington's Peninsula Army. He and the Sixth had survived Corunna to endure three more years of brutal fighting that would culminate in one of the most vital and vicious confrontations of the campaign - the siege of Badajoz.

While Hervey paces his prison cell, and re-lives the bloodshed of battles past, friends from expected quarters rush to his aid ...

'As good on the details of the workings of a cavalry regiment in 1820 as ever Patrick O'Brian was on the workings of an 1820 warship.' Spectator

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Bantam Press
• Date d'édition: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0593053400
• ISBN 13: 9780593053409
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 384