The Heroic Garrison

by V. A. Stuart

Overview

In this final volume of Stuart's Sheridan series, General Havelock's Moveable Column—a force of barely a thousand men—has finally fought its way through to the heroic garrison defending the Residency in Lucknow, only to be besieged themselves by the 60,000 mutinous sepoys in the city. They must hold firm until the relieving force reaches them. Meanwhile, Colonel Alex Sheridan volunteers for a dangerous mission, but is captured. He is soon called upon to fight a much more personal war: assassination of the very man who ordered the deaths of his wife and child!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781590130308
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	02/01/2003
Series:	Alexander Sheridan Adventures , #5
Pages:	256
Sales rank:	740,658
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.74(d)

About the Author

V. A. Stuart wrote several military fiction series and numerous other novels under various pseudonyms. Her settings span history and the globe, from the Napoleonic Wars of Europe to India under the British Raj. Born in 1914, she was in Burma with the British Fourteenth Army, became a lieutenant, and was decorated with the Burma Star and the Pacific Star.

Editorial Reviews

Stuart's saga of Captain Sheridan during the Mutiny stands in the shadow of no previous work of fiction, and for historical accuracy, writing verve and skill, and pace of narrative, stands alone.

El Paso Times

Vivid details of scarlet soldiering.

Tatler

The author's command of the smallest detail of the period is impressive. A historical novel of scholarship.

Yorkshire Post

"For historical accuracy, writing verve and skill, and pace of narrative, [Stuart] stands alone."  —El Paso Times

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