Allan Mallinson
Author
Publisher
Bantam Press
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
Following their successful invasion of Coorg in order to remove the state's deranged rajah, Lieutenant-Colonel Matthew Hervey is looking forward to a few months' respite for his regiment, the 6th Light Dragoons, and his family. Indeed, with his stock standing high throughout British India, he has rarely counted himself so content. But it is not to last. Lord William Bentinck, the governor-general believes that Hervey is just the man to form and lead...
Author
Publisher
Bantam
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Allan Mallinson has written a new history of the origins - and the opening first few weeks fighting - of what would become known as 'the war to end all wars'. He explains the grand strategic shift that occurred in the century before the war, the British Army's regeneration after its drubbings in its fight against the Boer, its almost calamitous experience of the first 20 days' fighting in Flanders, and the point at which the BEF took up the pick and...
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
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? After all this was a fight that, we were told, would be over by Christmas. Now, Allan Mallinson, former professional soldier and author, provides answers that are disturbing as well as controversial, and have a contemporary resonance. He disputes the growing consensus among historians that...
Author
Publisher
Bantam Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
In England, the new government is facing protests against the attempts of the Tory-dominated House of Lords to thwart the passing of the Reform Bill. In India, relations are strained between the presidency of Madras and some of the neighbouring princely states. Having taken command of the action in Bristol to restore order after one of the bloodiest and most destructive riots in the nation's history, Lieutenant-Colonel Matthew Hervey is out of favour...
11) Rumours of war
Author
Series
Matthew Hervey volume 6
Publisher
Bantam
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
12) The sabre's edge
Author
Publisher
Bantam
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
1824. The Sixth Light Dragoons are still stationed in India, and the talk in the officers' mess is of war. The Burmese are increasingly encroaching on Company land and skirmishes are becoming common on India's borders. Meanwhile across the country in Bhurtpore the succession to the Raj has been usurped.