Read Series: Matthew Hervey
by Author Allan Mallinson
The Sabre's Edge (2004)
1824. The Sixth Light Dragoons are still stationed in India and the talk in the officer’s mess is of war. The Burmese are encroaching on Company land and skirmishes are common on India’s borders. Meanwhile, across the country in Bhurtpoor the succession to the Raj has been usurped. The rightful c...
Company of Spears (2007)
The eighth novel in the acclaimed and bestselling series finds Hervey on his way to South Africa where he is preparing to form a new body of cavalry, the Cape Mounted Rifles. All looks set fair for Major Matthew Hervey: news of a handsome legacy should allow him to purchase command of his belove...
A Call to Arms (2003)
Matthew Hervey is recalled to take up arms against Burmese rebels massing on the frontier with India in the fourth installment of his adventures with the Light Dragoons.The last two years have not been good ones for Matthew Hervey. His beloved wife Henrietta is dead and, believing that he can no ...
Rumours of War (2005)
Portugal 1826 Newly returned from India, Matthew Hervey joins a party of officers sent to lend support to the Portugese regent. But the Peninsula is a place redolent with memories. For it was here as a seventeen-year-old cornet that Hervey had his first taste of military action. The French had f...
An Act of Courage (2006)
I've tried reading Allan Mallinson's output before, which is why this one was relegated to a bog book.It sure looks exciting from the front cover doesn't it ? Cor, sojers, fightin' an adventure !Well the covers the best bit. Come on now, that can't be right Mr D, surely ? Well it is. and to coin ...
A Close Run Thing (2000)
Though a competent officer serving with the Sixth Dragoons for 6 years having never gotten promotion suddenly in the course of the end of the main campaign against Napoleon and the resumption during the last battles of the 100 days seems far fetched, Matthew Hervey is a worthy addition to those w...