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Too Few for Drums: A grand tale of adventure set during the Napoleonic Wars

Too Few for Drums: A grand tale of adventure set during the Napoleonic Wars

by R. F. Delderfield (Author), R. F. Delderfield (Author)

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    Paperback 2003

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Synopsis

After the British victory at Busaco during the Peninsula campaigns of the Napoleonic Wars, Ensign Keith Graham finds himself cut off from the army, along with a sergeant and seven privates. This ill-assorted, tattered band is joined by a Welsh campfollower, Gwyneth and she and Sergeant Fox help nineteen-year-old Graham achieve both manhood and leadership. Struggling through strange, often hostile country, with insufficient food and sometimes mutinous men, his one aim is to reach the coast and, hopefully, safety ...

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Format: paperback
 Publisher: Hodder Paperbacks
Published:
ISBN 10: 0340554479
ISBN 13: 9780340554470
Book Overview: From one of the twentieth century's bestselling authors, this is a wonderful adventure set during the Napoleonic wars.

Media Reviews
R.F. Delderfield is a born storyteller * Sunday Mirror *
His narratives belong in a tradition that goes back to John Galsworthy * Life Magazine *
Author Bio
R.F. Delderfield was born in South London in 1912. On leaving school he joined the Exmouth Chronicle newspaper as a junior reporter, where he went on to become Editor. From there he began to write stage plays and then became a highly successful novelist, renowned for brilliantly portraying slices of English life. With the publication of his first saga, A HORSEMAN RIDING BY, he became one of Britain's most popular authors. Many of his bestselling novels were later adapted for television. He died in 1972.