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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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His narratives belong in a tradition that goes back to John Galsworthy * Life Magazine *

Too Few for Drums A grand tale of adventure set

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      Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
      Publication Date: 16/01/1992
      ISBN13: 9780340554470, 978-0340554470
      ISBN10: 0340554479

      Description

      Book 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 . . .



      Trade Review
      R.F. Delderfield is a born storyteller * Sunday Mirror *
      His narratives belong in a tradition that goes back to John Galsworthy * Life Magazine *

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