Rumours of war
Mallinson, Allan2007
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1826: Napoleon Bonaparte is dead and there is peace in Europe. However, in Portugal there is the scent of civil war in the air. Newly returned from India, Matthew Hervey joins a party of officers sent to lend support to the Portuguese regent. His place is secured with the help of Lady Katherine Greville.Portugal 1826 Newly returned from India, Matthew Hervey joins a party of officers sent to lend support to the Portugese regent. But the Peninsula is a place redolent with memories. For it was here as a seventeen-year-old cornet that Hervey had his first taste of military action. The French had forced the British army into ignominious retreat until, under the leadership of Sir John Moore, they made a defiant stand at Corunna. As he prepares for battle once more, Hervey finds himself confronting ghosts from his past ... 'Captain Matthew Hervey is as splendid a hero as ever sprang from an author's pen.' The Times
Main title:
Rumours of war / Allan Mallinson.
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Imprint:
London : Bantam, 2005.
Collation:
428 p. : map ; 20 cm.
Notes:
Originally published: 2004.
ISBN:
9780553813524 (pbk)
Dewey class:
FICTION823.92
LC class:
PR6063.A36615
Language:
English
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BRN:
84172
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