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12 reviews
R. F. Delderfield

Da Capo Press, 2006

One of the best family sagas
Adam Swann has followed his family's tradition of military service for long enough to turn 30. He's seen a lot during those years, including a horrific massacre of civilians. When chance places a fortune in rubies in his hands, he's more than ready to make drastic changes. Back to England he goes, the England of a world just prior to the American Civil War, looking for a better way to spend his ...

Napoleon's Marshals

9 reviews
RiF Delderfield

Cooper Square Press, 2002

Excellent Read
I flew through this book. The narrative style of writing lent itself to a quick and enjoyable read. I came away with a better overall picture of those who were surrounding Napoleon. Although the subject is broad in the sense that the author tackles so many people. He none-the-less does an excelent job of rounding out a solid picture of Naploeon's marshals, their personalites, their ...

Horseman Riding by Book 2: Post of Honour
R.F. Delderfield

Sceptre, 1995

To Serve Them All My Days

14 reviews
R. F. Delderfield

Carroll & Graf Publishers, 1999

I lost an old friend
Now that I've finished "To Serve Them All My Days" I feel that I've lost an old friend. I thoroughly enjoyed this book, savoring it and rationing my reading so as not to finish it too quickly. A must read for those interested in teaching, education in general, and in understanding children. This story is a study in the trials and tribulations life offers us, and how one person not only ...

Horseman Riding By Book 3: The Green Gauntlet
R.F. Delderfield

Coronet Books, 1995

Charlie, Come Home

2 reviews
R. F. Delderfield

Pocket, 1977

--"Unputdownable"--
CHARLIE, COME HOME is an amazing and fascinating story about a man who, at first, seems quite ordinary. Charlie Pritchard, a small, timid and quiet type of guy is a bank clerk. He works in a branch of Cadwallader's Bank in a small seaside town in Wales. He boards at the home of the bank manager and his life is rather boring. The other employees of the bank fight constantly and the ...

Theirs Was the Kingdom

5 reviews
R. F. Delderfield

Da Capo Press, 1999

Richly detailed and wonderfully authentic
Adam Swann, founder of transport giant Swann-on-Wheels, sits beside his aged father's deathbed as this sequel to God Is an Englishman begins. His family with wife Henrietta is growing up - indeed, his two oldest children have already left the nest. That leaves six at home. Adam and his beloved Hetty have their hands full with the challenges of rearing the rest of their brood, and of continuing to ...

Give Us This Day

1 review
R. F. Delderfield

Da Capo Press, 2001

Give us this Day
A wonderful read about the industrialization of England and the family that lives in that era. A terrific author: Delderfield

The Dreaming Suburb (The Avenue Story: Volume 1)

1 review
R.F. Delderfield

Coronet Books, 1977

BACK COVER REVIEW
Brilliantly paced, rich and exciting in narrative, The Dreaming Suburb, Volume I of The Avenue, is an extraordinary novel of people whose lives are intertwined in the years between the two wars... Jim Carver - A tough, resolute war veteran, he returns from the trenches to build a better life for his family on the Avenue. Archie Carver - Jim's oldest son, smart, ruthless, he has a quick eye ...

Farewell the Tranquil Mind
R. F. Delderfield

Hodder&Stoughton Ltd, 1967

Seven Men of Gascony (Classics of Military Fiction)

7 reviews
R.F. Delderfield

McBooks Press, 2001

Very good historical fiction
This novel follows seven French voltigeurs (skirmishers) through the later years of the Napoleonic wars. We join them on Lobau Island, on the eve of the battle of Aspern-Essling, and follow them through Wagram, the occupation of Vienna, Massena's peninsular campaign of 1810, a stint as POWs in England, the 1812 catastrophe in Russia, the desperate campaigning of 1813 and 1814, the first ...

Avenue
R. f. delderfield

Simon & Schuster, 1969

All Over Town
R. f. delderfield

Simon & Schuster, 1977

Too Few for Drums (Classics of Military Fiction)

3 reviews
R.F. Delderfield

McBooks Press, 2001

Delderfield visits the Penninsular War
This novel is set against the backdrop of Wellington's Penninsular campaign, around the year 1810. Wellington's army is retreating to Lisbon and being chased by a large force under Napoleon's Marshal Massena. 19 year-old British ensign Keith Graham is cut off with a squad of 8 men and a drummer boy after a nervous engineer prematurely detonates explosives destroying a bridge. The inexperienced ...

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