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A Close Run Thing, A Novel of Wellingtons Army of 1815 [UNABRIDGED CD] (Audiobook)
A Close Run Thing A Novel of Wellingtons Army of 1815 - UNABRIDGED CD - Audiobook Author:Allan Mallinson Brigadier Allan Mallinson is a cavalry officer who has served all over the world and within the Ministry of Defence. This is his first work of fiction. Its 1814, and Napoleon is hard-pressed to defend France from a combination of Russia, Prussia, Austria, and Britain. Nor is he the only one in a quandary. Matthew Hervey, a young British cornet, ... more »is in a rather unusual situation. As far as he knows, its highly irregular to be arrested on a battlefield after a successful action. Still, its hardly the first time politics has interrupted war, and as Herveys career progresses, he increasingly balances both, sometimes more successfully than others!« less