Book description
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 Peninsular 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
Allan Mallinson
was a serving cavalry officer. He is also the author of
Light Dragoons
, a history of four regiments of British Cavalry, one of which he
commanded, and a regular reviewer for
The Times,
the
Spectator
and the
Literary Review
. His Matthew Hervey novels are
Sunday Times
bestsellers and are all available in Bantam paperback.
