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Soldier of fortune

Title
Soldier of fortune / Edward Marston.
Author
Marston, Edward.
Publication
London : Allison & Busby, 2008.

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331 p.; 22 cm.
Summary
The first in a series of adventure novels featuring Captain Rawson - spy, linguist, sportsman, duellist, ladies' man and career soldier involved in the campaigns of the Duke of Marlborough during the war of the Spanish Succession. In 1685, young Daniel Rawson witnesses the regiment of his fierce Protestant father being destroyed by the troops of the Royal Army's second-in-command, John Churchill, and his Dutch mother narrowly avoiding rape at the hands of a soldier from the same platoon. After his father has been executed, Rawson and his mother leave Devon and sail for the Netherlands. In 1688, he returns to England as a soldier in the Dutch Army, supporting William of Orange in his bid to replace James II on the throne.
Subject
  • Soldiers > Fiction
  • Great Britain > History > 1660-1714 > Fiction
  • Great Britain > History, Military > 1603-1714 > Fiction
Call Number
JFD 09-231
ISBN
  • 9780749080525 (hbk.)
  • 0749080523 (hbk.)
OCLC
174130130
Author
Marston, Edward.
Title
Soldier of fortune / Edward Marston.
Imprint
London : Allison & Busby, 2008.
Research Call Number
JFD 09-231
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