| Title | : | Hell's Mile |
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| ISBN | : | - |
| Language | : | English |
| Format Type | : | Kindle Edition |
| Number of Pages | : | 281 |
| Publication | : | Published July 21, 2020 |
Tennyson called it the Valley of Death. The men of the Light Brigade called it Hell. It was a mile long.
Hell's Mile. A narrative that moves with the pace of a cavalry charge. Battle scenes that echo with the clash of steel, and reek of powder smoke. And amid the beat of the hooves and the carnage of the guns, terrifying descriptions of the killing and the dying.
Hell's Mile puts the reader in the saddle to ride into the Valley of Death with the Light Brigade
During the Crimean War, while British and French armies clash with the Russians, Major Jack Blake of Her Majesty's Special Intelligence Department races to uncover a conspiracy that could defeat the Allies. Blake is an assassin, but has been promoted for it because he kills for Queen Victoria. While gentlemen officers abide by 'proper conduct', he operates on the dark side of war where everything is allowed.
The climax of Blake's quest comes as he rides with the Light Brigade in the most horrific charge in military history. The brigade, armed with sabre and lance, rode Hell's mile under the severest fire of round shot and shell from Russian cannons to the front and on both sides. In the slaughter that followed, many men fell. Those who survived took a terrible revenge on the enemy.
Hell's Mile was launched at the National Army Museum, London, in February 2020.
Some of the first to buy and read the book had this to
How military history should be written - down and dirtyI've never felt so involved in the action. I almost felt splattered with blood!Better than SharpeAuthor's Warning
Neither war nor the correct retelling of it is for the faint-hearted. In Hell's Mile, characters based on real men of the Light Brigade speak as soldiers spoke in 1854. There are multiple uses of the 'F' word, and bawdy sexual references. Descriptions of the killing and dying are graphic and realistic, based on survivors' accounts and surgeons' reports. If you might find any of this offensive or upsetting, do not buy the book.
Hell's Mile is the first novel of the Charge of the Light Brigade by an authority on the subject
Terry Brighton was formerly museum curator of The Queen's Royal Lancers, descendant regiment of the 17th Lancers, which rode in the charge. His best-selling non-fiction account - Hell The Truth about the Charge of the Light Brigade - was based on survivors' accounts discovered in the regimental archives.
After appearing on the Richard & Judy television chat show to promote Hell Riders, Terry was asked by Richard Madeley why no-one had written 'the novel' - was it too big a subject? Terry promised to write it.
Now in Hell's Mile, he gives the cavalrymen back their sabres and saddles, and sends them once more into the Valley of Death, reconstructing the charge with unprecedented graphic accuracy and vigour.
Hell's Mile. A narrative that moves with the pace of a cavalry charge. Battle scenes that echo with the clash of steel, and reek of powder smoke. And amid the beat of the hooves and the carnage of the guns, terrifying descriptions of the killing and the dying.
Hell's Mile puts the reader in the saddle to ride into the Valley of Death with the Light Brigade
During the Crimean War, while British and French armies clash with the Russians, Major Jack Blake of Her Majesty's Special Intelligence Department races to uncover a conspiracy that could defeat the Allies. Blake is an assassin, but has been promoted for it because he kills for Queen Victoria. While gentlemen officers abide by 'proper conduct', he operates on the dark side of war where everything is allowed.
The climax of Blake's quest comes as he rides with the Light Brigade in the most horrific charge in military history. The brigade, armed with sabre and lance, rode Hell's mile under the severest fire of round shot and shell from Russian cannons to the front and on both sides. In the slaughter that followed, many men fell. Those who survived took a terrible revenge on the enemy.
Hell's Mile was launched at the National Army Museum, London, in February 2020.
Some of the first to buy and read the book had this to
How military history should be written - down and dirtyI've never felt so involved in the action. I almost felt splattered with blood!Better than SharpeAuthor's Warning
Neither war nor the correct retelling of it is for the faint-hearted. In Hell's Mile, characters based on real men of the Light Brigade speak as soldiers spoke in 1854. There are multiple uses of the 'F' word, and bawdy sexual references. Descriptions of the killing and dying are graphic and realistic, based on survivors' accounts and surgeons' reports. If you might find any of this offensive or upsetting, do not buy the book.
Hell's Mile is the first novel of the Charge of the Light Brigade by an authority on the subject
Terry Brighton was formerly museum curator of The Queen's Royal Lancers, descendant regiment of the 17th Lancers, which rode in the charge. His best-selling non-fiction account - Hell The Truth about the Charge of the Light Brigade - was based on survivors' accounts discovered in the regimental archives.
After appearing on the Richard & Judy television chat show to promote Hell Riders, Terry was asked by Richard Madeley why no-one had written 'the novel' - was it too big a subject? Terry promised to write it.
Now in Hell's Mile, he gives the cavalrymen back their sabres and saddles, and sends them once more into the Valley of Death, reconstructing the charge with unprecedented graphic accuracy and vigour.
