Too Few for Drums by R.F. Delderfield - ISBN: 9780340554470
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Stranded soldiers, a desperate journey, and one young man’s rise.

Too Few for Drums

A grand tale of adventure set during the Napoleonic Wars

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  • Paperback

    224 pages

  • Release Date

    29 February 1992

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Summary

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 c…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780340554470
ISBN-10:0340554479
Author:R.F. Delderfield
Publisher:Hodder & Stoughton
Imprint:Hodder Paperback
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:224
Release Date:29 February 1992
Weight:140g
Dimensions:176mm x 110mm x 18mm
Series:Coronet Books
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R.F. Delderfield is a born storyteller - Sunday Mirror His narratives belong in a tradition that goes back to John Galsworthy - Life Magazine

R.F. Delderfield is a born storyteller - Sunday Mirror

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

About The Author

R.F. Delderfield

R.F. Delderfield was born in South London in 1912. On leaving school he joined the Exmouth Chronicle newspaper as a junior reporter, where he went on to become Editor. From there he began to write stage plays and then became a highly successful novelist, renowned for brilliantly portraying slices of English life. With the publication of his first saga, A HORSEMAN RIDING BY, he became one of Britain’s most popular authors. Many of his bestselling novels were later adapted for television. He died in 1972.

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