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Too Few for Drums: A grand tale of adventure set during the Napoleonic Wars
R. F. Delderfield
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Description for Too Few for Drums: A grand tale of adventure set during the Napoleonic Wars
Paperback. From one of the twentieth century's bestselling authors, this is a wonderful adventure set during the Napoleonic wars. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FJM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 178 x 111 x 15. Weight in Grams: 128.
After the British victory at Busaco during the Peninsula campaigns of the Napoleonic Wars, Ensign Keith Graham finds himself cut off from the army, along with a sergeant and seven privates.
This ill-assorted, tattered band is joined by a Welsh campfollower, Gwyneth and she and Sergeant Fox help nineteen-year-old Graham achieve both manhood and leadership. Struggling through strange, often hostile country, with insufficient food and sometimes mutinous men, his one aim is to reach the coast and, hopefully, safety . . .
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780340554470
SKU
V9780340554470
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Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-50
About R. F. Delderfield
R.F. Delderfield was born in South London in 1912. On leaving school he joined the Exmouth Chronicle newspaper as a junior reporter, where he went on to become Editor. From there he began to write stage plays and then became a highly successful novelist, renowned for brilliantly portraying slices of English life. With the publication of his first saga, A ... Read more
Reviews for Too Few for Drums: A grand tale of adventure set during the Napoleonic Wars
R.F. Delderfield is a born storyteller
Sunday Mirror
His narratives belong in a tradition that goes back to John Galsworthy
Life Magazine
Sunday Mirror
His narratives belong in a tradition that goes back to John Galsworthy
Life Magazine