Portugal 1826

Newly returned from India, Matthew Hervey joins a party of officers sent to lend support to the Portugese regent. But the Peninsula is a place redolent with memories. For it was here as a seventeen-year-old cornet that Hervey had his first taste of military actionThe French had forced the British army into ignominious retreat until, under the leadership of Sir John Moore, they made a defiant stand at Corunna.

As he prepares for battle once more, Hervey finds himself confronting ghosts from his past ...

''Captain Matthew Hervey is as splendid a hero as ever sprang from an
author''s pen.'' The Times

Format Häftad Omfång 560 sidor Språk Engelska Förlag Transworld Publishers Ltd Utgivningsdatum 2005-03-01 ISBN 9780553813524