The Sunday Times bestselling author Allan Mallinson, brings us another action-packed and stirring Matthew Hervey adventure. If you like Patrick O'Brian, Bernard Cornwell and CS Forester, this will not disappoint! "A thoroughly satisfying and entertaining read" - THE TIMES "Matthew Hervey has now joined Bernard Cornwell's Sharpe and Patrick O'Brian's Jack Aubrey" - Birmingham Post "After just half-a-dozen pages I was hooked. " -- ***** Reader review "An excellent book, when you start reading you cannot put it ...
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The Sunday Times bestselling author Allan Mallinson, brings us another action-packed and stirring Matthew Hervey adventure. If you like Patrick O'Brian, Bernard Cornwell and CS Forester, this will not disappoint! "A thoroughly satisfying and entertaining read" - THE TIMES "Matthew Hervey has now joined Bernard Cornwell's Sharpe and Patrick O'Brian's Jack Aubrey" - Birmingham Post "After just half-a-dozen pages I was hooked. " -- ***** Reader review "An excellent book, when you start reading you cannot put it down. Allan Mallinson at his best!!! " -- ***** Reader review "Essential reading for military buffs" -- ***** Reader review ********************************************************************** India 1819 : Matthew Hervey is charged with raising a new troop, and organising transport for India - for he, his men and their horses are to set sail with immediate effect. What Hervey and his soldiers cannot know is that in India they will face a trial for which they are woefully under prepared. A large number of Burmese war-boats are assembled near Chittagong , and the only way to thwart their advance involves a hazardous march through the jungle. Soon Hervey and his troop are in the midst of hot and bloody action once again... A Call To Arms is the fourth book in Allan Mallinson's Matthew Hervey series. His adventures continue in The Sabre's Edge . Have you read his previous adventures A Close Run Thing, The Nizam's Daughters and A Regimental Affair ?
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Fine in Fine jacket. Limited Edition. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Signed by Author & Contributor First limited edition. One of 15 lettered de luxe copies signed by Mallinson and Anthony Price on the limitation page. Copy D. Produced for private distribution. (85 numbered copies signed by Mallinson were meant for sale. ) A 3pp "An Appreciation of Allan Mallinson" by Price. Quarter leather with decorated paper-covered boards. Gilt-stamped lettering on spine. Plastic dustwrapper with short crease at one corner; otherwise, an unread copy in Fine condition.