📱 eBook en inglés WORDS OF COMMAND

Once again, THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR Allan Mallinson captivates readers with an eminently readable piece of historical fiction. If youre a fan of Patrick OBrian, Bernard Cornwell and CS Forester, youll love this.

The Matthew Hervey books have a way of getting under your skin...reveals a man who is very much of his time -and one to have beside you when riding into action. - DAILY MAIL
One for the fans, who will not be disappointed by Mallinsons winning combination of scrupulous research and derring-do...with the French in front and the Russians behind, Herveys your man. - THE TIMES
Leaves the reader slavering for the next instalment. -- ***** Reader review
This is historical fiction at its very best. -- ***** Reader review
Such a pleasure to read a well written, well edited, well researched, readable piece of historical fiction. -- ***** Reader review

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January 1830, and one of the hardest winters in memory...

The prime minister, the Iron Duke, is resisting growing calls for parliamentary reform, provoking scenes of violent unrest in the countryside.

Against this inflammable backdrop Lieutenant-Colonel Matthew Hervey, recently returned from an assignment in the Balkans, takes command of his regiment, the 6th Light Dragoons. His fears that things might be a little dull are quickly dispelled by the everyday business of vexatious officers, NCOs promotions and incendiarists on the doorstep of the King himself.

But its when the Sixth are sent to Brussels for the fifteenth anniversary celebrations of the battle of Waterloo and find themselves caught up in the Belgian uprising against Dutch rule that the excitement really starts.

Will Hervey be able to keep out of the fighting - a war that would lead, nearly a century later, to Britains involvement in an altogether different war - while safeguarding his countrys interests? Not likely!