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On a summer night in 1812, a boy sets fire to a house in Paris
before escaping over the rooftops. Carrying vital intelligence
about Napoleon's Russian campaign, he heads for England. But
landing in Kent, he is beaten almost to death. The Foreign
Secretary, Lord Castlereagh, is desperate for the boy's
information. He is even more desperate, however, to track down the
boy's assailant - a sadistic French agent who knows far too much
about Castlereagh's intelligence network. Captain George Shuster is
a veteran of the Peninsula, an aide-de-camp to Wellington, now
recalled from the continent and struggling to adjust to civilian
life. Thomas Jesuadon is a dissolute, living on the fringes of
society, but with an unrivalled knowledge of the seamy underside of
the capital. Setting out to trace the boy's attacker, they journey
from the slums of London to the Scottish coast, following a trail
of havoc, betrayal, official incompetence and murder. It takes an
unlikely encounter with a frightened young woman to give them the
breakthrough that will turn the hunter into the hunted. Meanwhile,
the boy travels the breadth of Europe in the wake of the Grande
Armee, witnessing at first hand the ruination they leave behind and
the awful price of Napoleon's ambition. This companion to M.M.
Bennetts's brilliant debut, May 1812, is a gripping account of
deception, daring and determination, of intelligence and guile
pitted against brutality. Bennetts brings to vivid life the
harrowing devastation wrought on the civilian populations of Europe
by Napoleon's men, and the grit, courage and tenacity of those who
stood against them.
1812. Europe has been at war for twenty years. Britain stands alone
against the greatest threat to peace the world has ever known, at
daily risk of a French invasion and revolution. In London, a
handful of men struggle to protect their country and maintain the
war effort. Among them, the Earl of Myddelton, code-breaker to the
Foreign Office, strives to crack the most difficult French code
yet-the Grand Chiffre-before still more men die on the battlefields
of Europe. Then, on 11 May 1812, the unthinkable happens-the Prime
Minister is assassinated. Amid widespread panic and fear of a
French conspiracy, the government falls. From the ballrooms of
London, to the backstreets of power, to the death-in-waiting coast
of enemy France, Myddelton is drawn inexorably into the deepening
crisis-his private life unravelling all the while, as
misunderstandings, gossip and spite mar his marriage and threaten
to destroy his career.
A compilation of essays from the English Historical Fiction Authors
blog, this book provides a wealth of historical information from
Roman Britain to early twentieth century England. Over fifty
different authors share hundreds of real life stories and
tantalizing tidbits discovered while doing research for their own
historical novels. From Queen Boadicea's revolt to Tudor
ladies-in-waiting, from Regency dining and dress to Victorian crime
and technology, immerse yourself in the lore of Great Britain. Read
the history behind the fiction and discover the true tales
surrounding England's castles, customs, and kings.
This book explains the role of marketing within tourism management
and the related areas of leisure and hospitality management.
Written specifically for students and future managers in these
industries, it presents material in a clear and concise way which
stresses how the tourism product, in its many forms, differs from
other kinds of product and service. A variety of case studies draw
together and illustrate the material covered in the main text.
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