Bonaparte's Invaders by Richard Howard
Seventeen thousand French troops leave Toulon harbour in May 1798 unaware of their ultimate destination. Barely three months after taking Rome, Napoleon Bonaparte has rewarded the finest regiments of that campaign with a place among the Army of Orient, the elite invasion force bound - as Bonaparte's more guarded tones reveal - for Egypt. By the time the discontented ranks of Alain Lausard's cavalry unit have staggered, starved and exhausted, upon the desert shores, his dragoons have more than glory to fight for. Worn down by the blistering heat, they summon unknown strengths to resist the Arab warrior raids that blight their path towards the Nile, but as they are drawn deeper into forbidding territory, despair and disease, Nelson's destruction of the French fleet and Bonaparte's obsessive war-mongering convinces Lausard he will never see Paris again...
'Will appeal to those who derive both entertainment and interest from such novels which can bring to life a sense of period more vividly than many conventional histories' - MILITARY ILLUSTRATED 'The battle scenes are very well handled as the action sweeps the reader forward and presents a realistic look at the brutality of Napoleonic warfareAn enjoyable read' - HISTORICAL NOVEL REVIEW
Richard Howard is the pseudonym of a bestselling author.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780751518122 |
| ISBN 10 | 0751518123 |
| Title | Bonaparte's Invaders |
| Author | Richard Howard |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Year published | 1999-07-01 |
| Number of pages | 374 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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