| Warrior - the tenth book in the Matthew Hervey series was published in hardback on 2nd June 2008. 1828: The stability of the Cape Colony has been threatened by Xhosa tribesman who have been making incursions across the borders.And when Hervey is told by his old friend, Sir Eyre Somervile, that the Zulu warrior king Shaka is about to make war on neighbouring tribes in the south of the country, he knows that matters are perilous indeed. Leaving his new wife in England, Hervey speeds to his friend's aid... |
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The Making of the British Army will be published in the spring of 2009. Here follows a brief synopsis:
No army in the world has a history like the British army.
It has been involved in more military engagements than any other, more often, and against a different number of adversaries. It has fought both major and minor battles, sometimes simultaneously, all over the world. It has both won an empire and wound it down. It has suffered disastrous setbacks and huge defeats, yet it has lost only one war. And, except for twenty-one of its 361 years' history, it has done this with a volunteer army.
Quite simply, the British army has a unique understanding of the application of military force. And military force is where the history of today’s army really begins - with the close-run Battle of Edgehill in 1642, when the Roundheads were almost routed by the Royalist cavalry under the dashing Prince Rupert, and in which was sown the seed of the later, unbeatable 'New Model' army under Cromwell
Taking in Marborough's momentous victory at Blenheim, our catastrophic defeat at the hands of the Americans in 1783, and the traumas of both World Wars, Allan Mallinson shows us the extraordinary development of the British Army , and the way its past has shaped its present strengths - and weaknesses. A former cavalry officer, and now the defence commentator of the Daily Telegraph and a bestselling novelist, he is uniquely placed to write a history as timely and as controversial as this will surely be.
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Man of War was published in paperback on 10th March, of which Sally Cousins in the Sunday Telegraph (6 April) says "Mallinson's crisp, authoritative storytelling is as excellent as ever." Captain Sir Laughton Peto, recently engaged to Matthew Hervey’s sister, Elizabeth, has just taken command of HMS Prince Rupert, the only three-deck line-of-battle ship in commission. He is the proud master of a wooden fortress whose formidable firepower is the equal of Bonaparte’s grand battery at Waterloo. But his passage to the Ionian – where Admiral Codrington is assembling an Anglo-Russian-French fleet to evict the Turks from Greek waters – will not be smooth sailing. Read more... > |
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| The last, large scale naval battle between sailing ships in history. The battle of Navarino took place during the Greek war of Independence (1821 – 1829) in Navarino Bay, Western Greece , in the Ionian sea. |
