An Act Of Courage - Hardcover

Mallinson, Allan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0593053400 ISBN 13: 9780593053409

Publisher: Bantam Press, 2005

Synopsis

This title is set in Badajoz; and it is Christmas of 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 Peninsula 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...

About this title

About the Author

Brigadier Allan Mallinson was a serving cavalry officer. Besides the Matthew Hervey series, he is 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 and the Spectator. Allan Mallinson's six previous novels featuring Matthew Hervey - A Close Run Thing, The Nizam's Daughters, A Regimental Affair, A Call to Arms, and The Sabre's Edge and Rumours of War, which were Sunday Times Bestsellers - are all available in Bantam paperback.

From the Back Cover

Mallinson s descriptions of what it s like to be on campaign are as compelling, vivid and plausible as in any war novel I ve ever read. Telegraph
 
Christmas 1826 finds Matthew Hervey of the 6th Light Dragoons alone and a prisoner.
Captured by the Spanish, he is locked up in the notorious fortress of Badajoz, with little means of outside communication, his Prayer Book his only mental sustenance.
 
He must escape, but as Hervey lays his plans his thoughts return to 1812, when as a young cornet he was here with Wellington s Peninsular Army.Having survived the terrible retreat to Corunna, Hervey and the Sixth had gone on to endure three more years of fighting only to be stalled at Badajoz.
 
Badajoz: a fortress of huge strategic importance, where two sieges had already failed, and where French resistance was at its bloodiest.No one from the Duke of Wellington to the most lowly cornet was in any doubt that in order to defeat Napoleon they must carry the day.As the young Hervey and his comrades prepared for the third and final attack on the fortress, the only options left were death or glory.
 
What Hervey cannot know, as he paces his prison cell fourteen years later, is that in Lisbon, his close friends including the beautiful Isabella Delgado are rushing to his aid.The escape they plan is audacious in the extreme

Edition details

• Publisher: Bantam Press
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0593053400
• ISBN 13: 9780593053409
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 384