Book description
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
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.
