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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 400 páginas
PVP: 37,75 €
ISBN 978-0-593-06760-4
EAN 9780593067604
'No part of the Great War compares in interest with its opening', wrote Churchill. 'The measured, silent drawing together of gigantic forces, the uncertainty of their movements and positions, the number of unknown and unknowable facts made the first collision a drama never surpassed. In fact the War was decided in the first twenty days ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-0-553-81864-2
EAN 9780553818642
January 1829: George IV is on the throne, Wellington is England's prime-minister, and snow is falling thickly on the London streets as Lieutenant-Colonel Matthew Hervey is summoned to the Horse Guards in the expectation of command of his regiment, the 6th Light Dragoons. But the benefits of long-term peace at home mean cuts in the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 11,25 €
ISBN 978-0-553-81862-8
EAN 9780553818628
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 ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 496 páginas
PVP: 12,75 €
ISBN 978-0-553-81676-1
EAN 9780553816761
Britain and the Mediterranean, 1827Captain Sir Laughton Peto, recently engaged to Matthew Herveys sister, is sailing his mighty line-of-battle ship towards Navarino Bay, and war with the Turks. Six months on, and Matthew Hervey of the 6th Light Dragoons is in London recovering from the wound from his battle with the Zulu. All is set ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 560 páginas
PVP: 12,65 €
ISBN 978-0-553-81352-4
EAN 9780553813524
Portugal 1826Newly 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 action. The French had forced the British army into ignominious ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 528 páginas
PVP: 12,65 €
ISBN 978-0-553-50713-3
EAN 9780553507133
Waterloo, 1815As the war against Bonaparte rages to its bloody end upon the field of Waterloo, a young officer goes about his duty in the ranks of Wellington's army. He is Cornet Matthew Hervey of the 6th Light Dragoons a soldier, gentleman and man or honour, who suddenly finds himself allotted a hero's role Momentous ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 512 páginas
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ISBN 978-0-553-81675-4
EAN 9780553816754
1827, and Matthew Hervey is on the look out for a new posting.He soon finds one in the Cape Colonies, where there is need of a man to re-organise the local forces, and in particular to form a new company of horse.Accompanied by a mixed-race captain from the disbanded Royal African Corps, Hervey heads out ...
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