Rumours Of War : (The Matthew Hervey Adventures: 6): An action-packed and captivating military adventure from bestselling author Allan Mallinson

by Mallinson, Allan | Fiction & related items
Published 01/03/2005 by Transworld Publishers Ltd (Bantam Books (Transworld Publishers a division of) in the United Kingdom as part of the Matthew Hervey series
Paperback | 560 pages
197 x 130 x 35mm | 388g

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 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