For example, Instead of saying “Matthew Hervey closed on the French, sword aiming for his enemy, screaming his battle cry as he rammed the cold steel through the Frenchman’s neck,” we would have something mild like “Hervey watched the dreadful carriage. I never got the feeling of “being in the action” so to speak as I do when reading the Sharpe books. I’m writing this as an admirer of the Richard Sharpe series, so this might be a little unjust. Graham is an actor and audiobook narrator. Errick Graham did a good job narrating the book. I enjoyed this and will be looking for book two of the series. The author is a retired British Army Officer who turned to writing both non-fiction and fiction. It started me thinking about what Europe and the world would be like today if he had won. I was impressed with the section about the battle of Waterloo Mallinsen did an excellent job describing the battle. Hervey is a Calvary officer and the author provides a great deal of information about Calvary horses and their care during the Napoleonic Wars. I assume that Mallinsen is setting the scene and building his background for the series. The author has done an excellent job in putting the reader into the period of history. Mallinsen provides detailed information about the period as well as life in the army. The book is well written and meticulously researched. We follow Hervey through the Peninsular Campaign to Waterloo. In this book Hervey is with the Duke of Wellington’s Army in the Napoleonic Wars. book.This is book one of a series about Cornet Matthew Hervey. Dustwrappr with some very minimal edgewear. In the original publisher's cloth binding. He is best known for his Matthew Hervey novels, of which he has now published thirteen novels, as well as publishing various non-fiction novels about the army. Written by Allan Mallinson, an English author and retired British Army officer. Matthew Hervey was in the 6th Light Dragoons, and climbed through the ranks. 'A Close Run Thing' is the first novel in Mallinson's Matthew Hervey series, with this novel's events taking place before and during the Battle of Waterloo. Held in the original publisher's unclipped dustwrapper.
The first edition of this work, Signed by the author, with a tipped in note to the tile page. A signed first edition of Allan Mallinson's first Matthew Hervey novel, 'A Close Run Thing'.
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