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Hungry Harry: An Orphan in the Ranks de Andrew Wareham

de Andrew Wareham - Género: English
libro gratis Hungry Harry: An Orphan in the Ranks

Sinopsis

Hungry Harry: An Orphan in the Ranks...
Born in a home for fallen women, at the age of eight the barefooted and waiflike Harry is sent out to work. After years of unpaid toil and hunger, he runs away and is cajoled into believing that the Army is his only option. He joins a battalion that is sent to Africa’s Slave Coast where disease is the biggest killer of men. When the much-thinned battalion returns to England and is disbanded, he drifts into smuggling in order to survive. All goes well until he is betrayed and forced back on the run. Leaving the West Country behind, he enlists in a Sussex regiment which is sent to quell rioting in the north where he faces danger from the angry Mob, and from the rage of a sadistic young ensign who is out for Harry’s blood.


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Good, typical Wareham

If you Wareham's other books, you'll this one. Young Harry is a able scoundrel though he is. Flawed, but popular; deadly effective in his quest for career advancement and separation from his ignoble origin. I appreciate the view that history's heroes had feet of clay. Wareham strives to give his lead characters less than perfect temperaments-- warts and all, Harry and his fellows are very believable. Bravo for the common man! JOHN W GILL7

Wareham's booksare always a pleasure

I enjoy his books greatly. I have read and reread htos books and series at the past several years and dread the day he stops writing. His characters seem SO real and as an American I have pi ked up so much information about English life that I be er knew. DEAR ANDREW, KEEP IT UP!! Kevin Hill75 1 follower

The book gives you a good feel for what it was to be a soldier in the English Army in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. I thought the description of the Army putting down riots in the northern counties was particularly well done. carol kinsey2

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Good invite to the life at that time. Hardtop I turn what life was at that time without books this. Eric D Newsom3

Goodbbook

Wareham is one of my favorite authors, and rarely falls short. This book is a good look at the human material that made up the bulk of the 18th century British army. Not one of his best but very good read. John Copeland24

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