Product Description

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...

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #232223 in Books
• Published on: 1999-07-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 384 pages

Review
'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 warfare. An enjoyable read' - HISTORICAL NOVEL REVIEW

MILITARY ILLUSTRATED
`Will appeal to those who derive both entertainment and interest from historical works...'

About the Author
Richard Howard is the pseudonym of a bestselling author.

Customer Reviews

Brilliant
Every bit as good as the previous book, a good in sight into the french army just after the revolution.

Good but could have been better
This was generally a good book but there were a couple of things that bugged me about this book. 1)some of the dialouge was the same as in the first of the series. When Laussard gets in to an argument with Dealcor and Delpirre they glare and growl then back down (the same thing happened in the first novel) this happens so much that you just wish they would fight. 2)Karim seems to be sterotypical chachter e.g the noble inteligent savage who disagrress with them yet fights with the french and is a friend of Laussard. 3)The charachters seem to be invincibal and never die. The author should have killed acouple off to show the danger they face. 4) The ending seemed a bit rushed they did not show how they dealt with Napoleons defeat at Acre and his invasion of Syria. Apart from the above I found it an enjoyable book and with some good battle scenes and a refreshing change to have anovel to show the french soldiers view during the Napolionic Wars.