APPRECIATION FOR THE MAKING OF THE BRITISH ARMY: From The Times - Christmas Books "Historians have had many causes to be gloomy this year. Advances are down. Historical fiction marches on, stealing the limelight and the big prizes. Shelf-space for non-blockbuster authors is decreasing.Yet there has been an exceptionally heavy crop of brilliant historical works to gobble up... [Max Hastings, Andrew Roberts etc]... Finally, I recommend three books that are linked by nothing more than their mutual brilliance... [Leanda de Lisle, Glyn Williams]. And The Making of the British Army by Allan Mallinson (Bantam, £20) must be read for the final chapter and epilogue — as precise and profound an assessment as is imaginable of the British Army as it is today and as it must become."
The Making of the British Army was published on 10th September 2009. Meanwhile Allan Mallinson is working on his eleventh Hervey novel - provisionally titled On His Majesty's Service - to be published later this year. - Allan Mallinson will be speaking about The Making of the British Army at the National Army Museum on 14 January at 1230. Click here for more information >
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Warrior - the tenth book in the Matthew Hervey series is now available in paperback. 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 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. |
