A Call to Arms (Limited and signed)
Inbunden bok. Scorpion Press. First, limited edition. Signed by the author uppl. 2001. 315 sidor.
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A Call to Arms (Limited and signed)
Alan Mallinson
Observera att denna bok är på engelska. Please note that this book is in English.
The book is a hardcover with dust jacket. It is new, and in perfect condition, except that the pages are slightly tanned.
Published by Scorpion Press in 2001.
First, limited edition. Signed by the author.
ISBN 1873567545
The only copy of this book I found on the Internet costs £ 225
Books from Scorpion Press are signed limited editions which are attractive to handle and add distinction to any collection; they are often, but not always available before the trade edition, and they have exclusively to Scorpion Press, an original appreciation of the author by a writer of note.
This limited edition is bound from the sheets of the first edition and published by arrangement with Bantam Press.
A new signed limited edition (number 10 out of 85 copies), quarter bound in dark blue leather with marbled boards, in a fine clear acetate dust jacket. Signed by the author.
Matthew Hervey is recalled to take up arms against Burmese rebels massing on the frontier with India in the fourth instalment of his adventures with the Light Dragoons.
The last two years have not been good ones for Matthew Hervey. His beloved wife Henrietta is dead and, believing that he can no longer remain in a regiment where men like Lord Towcester can rise to command, he has turned his back on the 6th Light Dragoons. He is left kicking his heels in a corrupt and unruly England far removed from its once glorious past.
1819 sees Hervey in Rome with his sister Elizabeth, where a chance meeting with one of England’s most controversial men of letters leads him to rethink his future. Joined by his old friend Captain Peto, Hervey realizes just how much he has missed the excitement of military action and the camaraderie of the Sixth. Soon he is en route for Hounslow via Whitehall, where he hurriedly purchases a new commission and is refitted for the uniform of his former regiment. There he finds things much changed for the better. Though depleted in numbers, they are now under the assured leadership of Sir Ivo Lankester, brother of Edward Lankester, hero of Waterloo. Hervey’s first task is to raise a new troop and then to organize transport, for his men and horses are to set sail for India with immediate effect.
What Hervey and his greenhorn soldiers cannot know is that in India they will face a trial for which they are sorely ill-prepared. For a large number of Burmese war boats are being assembled near the headwaters of the river leading to Chittagong, and the only way to thwart their advance involves an arduous and hazardous march through the jungle. Hervey and his troop find themselves in the midst of hot and bloody action once more.
Format: 24x16x3 cm, 315 pages.
