A Flag of Truce by David Donachie

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John Pearce comes back from Corsica demanding that Captain Barclay, the man who pressed him and his fellow Pelicans into the Navy, be tried at home by a civilian court. Against the background of the siege of Toulon and with the Revolutionary Army massing to attack, no-one in authority sees this as a good time to accede to his requests.

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A Flag of Truce by David Donachie

John Pearce comes back from Corsica demanding that Captain Barclay, the man who pressed him and his fellow Pelicans into the Navy, be tried at home by a civilian court. Against the background of the siege of Toulon and with the Revolutionary Army massing to attack, no-one in authority sees this as a good time to accede to his requests.
David Donachie was born in Edinburgh in 1944. He has always had an abiding interest in British naval history of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, as well as the clandestine services during the Second World War. He has 51 published novels to his credit. David lives in Deal, the historic English seaport on the border of the English Channel and the North Sea, with his partner, the novelist Sarah Grazebrook.
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ISBN 13 9780749079888
ISBN 10 0749079886
Title A Flag of Truce
Author David Donachie
Series John Pearce Naval Ser
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Allison & Busby
Year published 2009-03-30
Number of pages 442
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