Matthew Hervey is pursued by the French across the Spanish Peninsula.
A professional solder for thirty-five years, Allan Mallinson began
writing while still serving.
His first book was a history of four regiments of British light
dragoons, one of which he commanded. His debut novel was the
bestselling A Close Run Thing, the first in an acclaimed series
chronicling the life of a fictitious cavalry officer before and
after Waterloo (The Tigress of Mysore is the fourteenth in the
series). His The Making of the British Army was shortlisted for a
number of prizes, while 1914- Fight the Good Fight won the British
Army's 'Book of the Year' Award. Its sequel, Too Important for the
Generals, is a provocative look at leadership during the Great War,
while Fight to the Finish is a comprehensive history of the First
World War, month by month.
Allan Mallinson reviews for the Spectator and the TLS and also
writes for The Times. He lives on Salisbury Plain.
I enjoyed the adventure enormously...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
*Daily Telegraph*
With this intelligent but pacy book, Brigadier Mallinson stays well
on course to be regarded as the landlubbers' Patrick O'Brian'
*Sunday Telegraph*
Mallinson's shrewd handling of the issues of discipline and
tactics, the responsibilities of junior and senior command, and the
self-esteem of the cavalry, reflect both his own professional
experience and excellent historical judgement'
*The Times*
'As always, the author manages to integrate Hervey's life
seamlessly into history...Rumours of War is as well-written, and as
wholly engrossing, as any of the previous novels in the series' T.
J. Binyon, Evening Standard
Mallinson writes in beautiful almost Jane Austen-like English and
his command of history, military detail, horse-mastership ...
polymathic.
*Country Life*
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