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Rumours of War (Matthew Hervey #6)
In Europe, rumours of war are rife once again, as Matthew Hervey returns to the Peninsula to fight a new battle, and to confront the ghosts of his first campaign…
The year is 1826, and the fragile peace in Europe following the defeat of Napoleon is threatened by Spanish aggression in the Peninsula. Matthew Hervey, newly returned from India, joins a party of officers sent to...more
The year is 1826, and the fragile peace in Europe following the defeat of Napoleon is threatened by Spanish aggression in the Peninsula. Matthew Hervey, newly returned from India, joins a party of officers sent to...more
Paperback, 369 pages
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May 13th 2008
by Corgi
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A great improvement on the rest of the series, but I can't help wondering if Mallinson secretly wishes he's started the series at the beginning of the Peninsula campaign rather than at Waterloo as this story runs two together. The main story built around the Miguelista uprising in Portugal and the Hervey's time as a young cornet in in the Spain of 1809.
While the book was quite entertaining I did think the ruse at the end was a bit reminiscent of that Morcambe and Wise movie The Magni...more
While the book was quite entertaining I did think the ruse at the end was a bit reminiscent of that Morcambe and Wise movie The Magni...more
All of the Mathew Hervey adventures are gripping stories - as good a series of reads as the Patrick O'Brian Aubrey/Maturin seafaring adventures. Great for lovers of horses. I have read, and re-read, the lot.
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Brigadier Allan Lawrence Mallinson is an English author and was an officer in the British Army.
Mallinson is best known for writing a series of novels chronicling the (fictional) life of Matthew Hervey, an officer serving in the (fictional) British 6th Light Dragoons from the late Napoleonic Wars through subsequent colonial conflicts in India, North America and south Africa.
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Mallinson is best known for writing a series of novels chronicling the (fictional) life of Matthew Hervey, an officer serving in the (fictional) British 6th Light Dragoons from the late Napoleonic Wars through subsequent colonial conflicts in India, North America and south Africa.
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