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Allan Mallinson

    Allan Lawrence Mallinson je anglický autor a bývalý důstojník britské armády. Je známý především svou sérií románů, které fiktivně sledují život důstojníka Matthewa Herveyho. Jeho příběhy se odehrávají od konce napoleonských válek přes koloniální konflikty v Indii, Severní Americe a Jižní Africe. Mallinson přináší do svých děl autentický pohled na vojenský život a historická období.

    The Passage to India
    Too Important for the Generals
    On His Majesty's Service
    The Making Of The British Army
    1914: Fight the Good Fight
    The Light Dragoons
    • The Light Dragoons

      • 362 stránek
      • 13 hodin čtení
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      Although only formed in December 1992, The Light Dragoons look back to a history that began in the days of the first Jacobite rebellion. The 1922 reduction in the Army saw the amalgamation of four regiments of Hussars into the 13th/18th Hussars and the 15th/19th Hussars. Now they too have been amalgamated.

      The Light Dragoons
    • 1914: Fight the Good Fight

      • 640 stránek
      • 23 hodin čtení
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      'No part of the Great War compares in interest with its opening', wrote Churchill. In this history, the author brings his experience as a professional soldier to bear on the circumstances, events, actions and individuals and speculates - tantalizingly - on what might have been...

      1914: Fight the Good Fight
    • The Making Of The British Army

      • 733 stránek
      • 26 hodin čtení
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      Edgehill, 1642: Surveying the disastrous scene in the aftermath of the first battle of the English Civil War, Oliver Cromwell realizes that war can no longer be made in the old, feudal way: there has to be system and discipline, and therefore - eventually - a standing professional army.

      The Making Of The British Army
    • On His Majesty's Service

      • 464 stránek
      • 17 hodin čtení
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      January 1829: George IV is on the throne, Wellington is England's prime- minister, and snow is falling thickly on the London streets as Lieutenant- Colonel Matthew Hervey is summoned to the Horse Guards in the expectation of command of his regiment, the 6th Light Dragoons.

      On His Majesty's Service
    • Too Important for the Generals

      • 480 stránek
      • 17 hodin čtení
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      One of the great questions in the ongoing discussions and debate about the First World War is why did winning take so long and exact so appalling a human cost? The author argues that from day one of the war Britain was wrong-footed by absurdly faulty French military doctrine and paid, as a result, an unnecessarily high price in casualties.

      Too Important for the Generals
    • The Passage to India

      • 352 stránek
      • 13 hodin čtení
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      It is 1831, riots and rebellions are widespread . Somervile has persuaded the Court of Directors of the East India Company to approve an increase in the Madras military establishment. The Rajah is in revolt against the East India Company's terms and Hervey's regiment is called upon to crush the rebellion.

      The Passage to India
    • A Regimental Affair

      • 512 stránek
      • 18 hodin čtení
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      Canada 1817Captain Matthew Hervey is suffering the effects of unrest within his beloved regiment, the 6th Light Dragoons. While, closer to home, he and his commanding officer have embarked on a collision course - the consequences of which will be devastating...

      A Regimental Affair
    • Warrior

      • 432 stránek
      • 16 hodin čtení
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      Matthew Hervey of the 6th Light Dragoons is urgently summoned to the Cape Colony when he learns that the Zulu warrior King Shaka is about to wage war. Separated from his troop, Hervey must lead Shaka's queen across a hostile land where sanctuary has never seemed further away ...

      Warrior
    • January 1830, and one of the hardest winters in memory . Will Hervey be able to keep out of the fighting - a war that would lead, nearly a century later, to Britain's involvement in an altogether different war - while safeguarding his country's interests?

      Words of Command
    • The Sabre's Edge

      • 496 stránek
      • 18 hodin čtení
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      India, 1824Matthew Hervey and the 6th Light Dragoons are stationed in India, where conflagration looks set to flair.

      The Sabre's Edge