A Close Run Thing

Author : Allan Mallinson
Publisher : Random House
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2010-03-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781407057354

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A Close Run Thing (The Matthew Hervey Adventures: 1) by Allan Mallinson Pdf

From the Sunday Times bestselling author Allan Mallinson, a riveting read with the perfect combination of hero, history and adventure - perfect for fans of Patrick O'Brian and Bernard Cornwell. "Convincingly drawn, perfectly paced and expertly written...A Joy to read" - Antony Beevor. "I can't wait to read the next in the series..." - ***** Reader review. "A captivating read..."- ***** Reader review. "Allan Mallinson is a truly gifted storyteller..."- ***** Reader review. ************************************************************************* Waterloo 1815. The war against Napoleon Bonaparte is raging to its bloody end at Waterloo. A young officer - Cornet Matthew Hervey - going about his duty suddenly finds himself at the crux of events. The decisions he has to make - both military and romantic - will change the course of his life, and possible have far reaching political consequences... A Close Run Thing is the first book in Allan Mallinson's Matthew Hervey series. His adventures continue in The Nizam's Daughters.

Author : Allan Mallinson
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2000-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780553380439

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A Close Run Thing by Allan Mallinson Pdf

In the tradition of Patrick O'Brian's beloved historical military adventures comes the first in a dashing new series featuring Cornet Matthew Hervey, a young cavalry officer in Wellington's army of 1815. A Close Run Thing For two decades, since the French Revolution, England and her allies have fought a seemingly endless war to loosen Bonaparte's stranglehold on Europe. Matthew Hervey, a twenty-three-year-old parson's son, has risen through the ranks of His Majesty's cavalry to a junior command in the 6th Light Dragoons. Torn by ambition and ensnared in the intrigues of Wellington's army, Matthew struggles to shape his destiny, but his efforts are about to be cast to the winds of fate. For amid the clash of armies, he will find himself a catalyst in the battle of the century...near the small Belgian village of Waterloo.

Author : David Donachie
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2023-09-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781493074044

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A Close Run Thing by David Donachie Pdf

The fifteenth volume in the popular John Pearce Adventures set on the high seas 1796: Lieutenant John Pearce is hiding in the smugglers’ hub of Gravelines with his mysterious companion, known only to him as Oliphant, trapped in French territory with no way out. Although they find a crew willing to take them to England, they discover on the journey that Pearce’s old enemies, the Tolland brothers, are still active on the route and danger may be lurking close to shore. While being in his homeland brings Pearce closer to Emily Barclay and their young son, Adam, the constant need for discretion is an additional strain on their already fragile relationship. Then, just as things may be looking up, it seems Henry Dundas has another role for him and Oliphant: a mission to north-east Spain.

Author : Russell Phillips
Publisher : Shilka Publishing
Page : 21 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2011-09-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781466105478

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A Damn Close-Run Thing by Russell Phillips Pdf

“It was a damn close-run thing” — Major-General Moore, commander of the British land forces in the South Atlantic In 1982, the average Briton didn’t know the Falkland Islands existed, let alone their status as a disputed British territory just off the coast of Argentina. That changed when the Argentinians invaded the islands and overwhelmed the small defending force. Both nations claimed the islands were theirs, but now Argentina thought the British would give them up without a fight. They were wrong. Britain sent a task force into the South Atlantic to re-take the islands, and the short, intense war that followed was–in the words of Major-General Sir John Jeremy Moore–”a damn close-run thing.” This short history sums up the events leading up to the war and its major military actions including details of an Argentinian plan to sink a Royal Navy ship in Gibraltar harbour (foiled at the last minute by Spanish police) and an audacious British plan to land SAS soldiers in Argentina to destroy Exocet-carrying aircraft while they were still on the ground.

Author : David Crane
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2015-04-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781101874639

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Went the Day Well? by David Crane Pdf

In these pages, acclaimed historian David Crane gives us an astonishing, intimate snapshot of the people and places surrounding the battle that changed the course of world history. Switching perspectives between Britain and Belgium, prison and palace, poet and pauper, husband and wife, Went the Day Well? offers a highly original view of Waterloo, showing how the battle was not only a military landmark, but also a cultural watershed that drew the line between the rural, reactionary age of the past and the urban, innovative era to come. Lyrically rendered in Crane’s signature prose style, this essential account freeze-frames the ordinary men and women of 1815 who went about their business, attended lectures, worked in fields and factories—all on the cusp of a new, unforeseeable age.

Author : Tom Enright
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781775491743

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Many a Close Run Thing by Tom Enright Pdf

A New Zealand squadron leader, flying-boat captain and airliner pilot on a life of aerial adventure Planes were rarely seen above the small Central Otago sheep-farming town of Ranfurly in the 1940s. Yet as a young boy, Tom Enright had a fascination with the skies that quickly developed into a longing to become a pilot. He joined the RNZAF as an engineer in 1951, and was sent to England at just 16 to attend the revered Royal Air Force college in Cranwell. Returning to New Zealand to join the Vampire fighter squadron in Ohakea, Tom became a famed member of the RNZAF aerobatic team. Later he became a flying commander at Wigram air base, before captaining a Sunderland flying boat to isolated communities in the vast South Pacific, often to the upper limits of the plane's endurance. From the near-catastrophic opening of Wellington airport to flying Boeing 747s into the world's biggest airports, this is Tom Enright's story of the mishaps, misadventures and high-altitude drama of a 45-year flying career.

Author : Haruki Murakami
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2009-08-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307373083

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What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami Pdf

From the best-selling author of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and After Dark, a rich and revelatory memoir about writing and running, and the integral impact both have made on his life. In 1982, having sold his jazz bar to devote himself to writing, Haruki Murakami began running to keep fit. A year later, he’d completed a solo course from Athens to Marathon, and now, after dozens of such races, not to mention triathlons and a slew of critically acclaimed books, he reflects upon the influence the sport has had on his life and—even more important—on his writing. Equal parts training log, travelogue, and reminiscence, this revealing memoir covers his four-month preparation for the 2005 New York City Marathon and includes settings ranging from Tokyo’s Jingu Gaien gardens, where he once shared the course with an Olympian, to the Charles River in Boston among young women who outpace him. Through this marvellous lens of sport emerges a cornucopia of memories and insights: the eureka moment when he decided to become a writer, his greatest triumphs and disappointments, his passion for vintage LPs and the experience, after the age of fifty, of seeing his race times improve and then fall back. By turns funny and sobering, playful and philosophical, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running is both for fans of this masterful yet guardedly private writer and for the exploding population of athletes who find similar satisfaction in distance running.

Author : David Howarth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Waterloo, Battle of, Waterloo, Belgium, 1815
ISBN : 0002111195

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A Near Run Thing by David Howarth Pdf

Author : Tim Clayton
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2014-09-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780748134120

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Waterloo by Tim Clayton Pdf

'A fabulous story, superbly told' Max Hastings The bloodbath at Waterloo ended a war that had engulfed the world for over twenty years. It also finished the career of the charismatic Napoleon Bonaparte. It ensured the final liberation of Germany and the restoration of the old European monarchies, and it represented one of very few defeats for the glorious French army, most of whose soldiers remained devoted to their Emperor until the very end. Extraordinary though it may seem much about the Battle of Waterloo has remained uncertain, with many major features of the campaign hotly debated. Most histories have depended heavily on the evidence of British officers that were gathered about twenty years after the battle. But the recent publication of an abundance of fresh first-hand accounts from soldiers of all the participating armies has illuminated important episodes and enabled radical reappraisal of the course of the campaign. What emerges is a darker, muddier story, no longer biased by notions of regimental honour, but a tapestry of irony, accident, courage, horror and human frailty. An epic page turner, rich in dramatic human detail and grounded in first-class scholarly research, Waterloo is the real inside story of the greatest land battle in British history, the defining showdown of the age of muskets, bayonets, cavalry and cannon.

Author : Toni Cade Bambara
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : African Americans
ISBN : 1623236193

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Raymond's Run by Toni Cade Bambara Pdf

A story about Squeaky, the fastest thing on two feet, and her brother Raymond.

Author : David Treweek
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Australian fiction
ISBN : 1875989501

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A Close Run Thing by David Treweek Pdf

Author : Pam Lecky
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2023-08-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780008558314

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The Last Letter from London by Pam Lecky Pdf

⭐Sarah Gillespie is back! The third gripping and emotional WWII historical fiction novel from Pam Lecky is available for pre-order now!⭐ Her letters can save the country. But can she be trusted?

Author : James McGee
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 841 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780007538195

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Matthew Hawkwood Thriller Series Books 1-3: Ratcatcher, Resurrectionist, Rapscallion by James McGee Pdf

The Sunday Times bestselling historical thrillers. Meet Matthew Hawkwood: soldier, spy, lover. A man as dangerous as the murderers, spies and traitors he hunts on the crime-ridden streets of London at the height of the Napoleonic wars.

Author : David Donachie
Publisher : John Pearce
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2019-02-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0749022531

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A Close Run Thing by David Donachie Pdf

John Pearce is hiding in Gravelines with his mysterious companion, known to him as Oliphant. Although they find a crew willing to take them back to England, they learn on the journey that Pearce's old enemies, the Tolland brothers, are still active on the route, and may have been responsible for the murder of Catherine Carruthers.

Author : George Lathom Browne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:32044051073229

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Wellington, Or, The Public and Private Life of Arthur, First Duke of Wellington by George Lathom Browne Pdf