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Allan Mallinson
Matthew Hervey joins a party of officers sent to lend support to Portugese regent. But Peninsula is a place redolent with memories. The French had forced British army into retreat…
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Edgehill, 1642: Surveying the disastrous scene in the aftermath of the first battle of the English Civil War, Oliver Cromwell realizes that war can no longer be made in the…
Following their successful invasion of Coorg in order to remove the state’s deranged rajah, Lieutenant-Colonel Matthew Hervey is looking forward to a few months’ respite for his regiment, the 6th…
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A representative of the East India Company, Captain Matthew Hervey discovers peril and adventure during his mission to Chintalpore, an embattled Indian city. By the author of A Close Run…
A distinguished military historian tells the dramatic story of six defining battles in world history. Every battle is different. Each takes place in a different context–the war, the campaign, the…
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Rendering with meticulous detail the life of a cavalryman, A Close Run Thing combines historical accuracy, riveting drama, and superb battle scenes to take the reader along on the daring…
The year is 1817, and Captain Matthew Hervey–hero of the critically acclaimed Honorable Company and A Close Run Thing –has returned from India to an England in turmoil. Hervey’s personal…
Fresh from the field of Waterloo, Matthew Hervey is dispatched on a mission of the secrecy. Leaving behind his fiancee, Lady Henrietta Lindsey, he must journey to India, an exotic…
Captain Matthew Hervey is suffering the effects of unrest within his beloved regiment, the 6th Light Dragoons. Their new commanding officer - wealthy, arrogant and cruel - has taken an…
Matthew Hervey is charged with raising a new troop, and organising transport for India - for he, his men and their horses are to set sail with immediate effect. What…
Matthew Hervey and the 6th Light Dragoons are stationed in India, where conflagration looks set to flair. The usurper prince, Durjan Sal, has taken refuge in the infamous fortress of…
It’s 1826, and Matthew Hervey of the 6th Light Dragoons is a prisoner of the Spanish, incarcerated in the fortress of Badajoz. As he plans his escape, his thoughts return…
It is 1827, and Matthew Hervey is on the look out for a new posting. He soon finds one in the Cape Colonies, where there is need of a man…
It is 1827: Britain and the Mediterranean Captain Sir Laughton Peto, engaged to Matthew Hervey’s sister, is sailing his line-of-battle ship towards Navarino Bay. All is set fair for Matthew…
Looking at the First World War month by month reveals its complexity while preserving a sense of time. The month is a more digestible gauge. Based on the Allan Mallinson’s…
Waterloo (1815) - more written about in English than any other but rarely in its true context as the culminating battle in the longest war in ‘modern’ times. D-Day (1944)…
One of the great questions in the ongoing discussions and debate about the First World War is why did winning take so long and exact so appalling a human cost…
As war against Bonaparte rages to its bloody end upon the field of Waterloo, a young officer goes about his duty in the ranks of Wellington’s army. He is Cornet…
Matthew Hervey of the 6th Light Dragoons is urgently summoned to the Cape Colony when he learns that the Zulu warrior King Shaka is about to wage war. Soon Hervey…
Lieutenant-Colonel Matthew Hervey who undertakes a six-month assignment as an observer with the Russian army, an undertaking at the personal request of the commander-in-chief, Lord Hill. But soon the circumstances…
January 1830, the prime minister, the Iron Duke, is resisting growing calls for parliamentary reform, provoking scenes of violent unrest in the countryside. Against this inflammable backdrop Lieutenant-Colonel Matthew Hervey…
In India, relations are strained between the presidency of Madras and some of the neighbouring princely states. Having taken command of the action in Bristol to restore order after one…
