Assaye

di Michael Pattison (Autore)

Michael Pattison, 2026

John Thompson has no particular reason to be a soldier. He has no Highland blood, no regimental tradition, no officer's ambition. He has a name on a sergeant's list, a pack on his back, and a draft to the 74th Regiment of Foot — bound for a war nobody at the depot can find on a map. Shipped from the Isle of Wight to the burning coast of India, Thompson finds himself marching through a country vast beyond imagining, in the company of men he barely knows: Keogh the Irishman, who treats disaster like a joke he's already heard; Fraser the reader, with ink in his fingers and a head full of almanacs; and Ross, the Scotsman who measures trust in silence. Together they cross rivers, survive storms, follow Wellesley's impossible pace south through the Deccan — and arrive, on the morning of 23 September 1803, on the banks of the Kaitna river, looking across at the greatest army any of them have ever seen. The Battle of Assaye was the hardest fight Arthur Wellesley ever commanded. The 74th was almost destroyed. Son of England tells that story from the front rank: not from the general's telescope, but from the cactus hedge, the ditch, and the kneeling line waiting for the cavalry to come out of the dust. It is a novel about ordinary men in impossible circumstances — about loyalty forged in a ship's hold, about what it costs to keep walking forward, and about what survives the day when most things don't.

• Autore: Michael Pattison
• Anno edizione: 2026
• Editore: Michael Pattison
• Formato: EPUB3 con DRMFREE
• Lingua: Inglese
• Compatibilità: Tutti i dispositivi (eccetto Kindle)
• Layout: Reflowable
• EAN: 9798237178654