Product Description
by David Donachie (Author)
An epic of 18th-century warfare by land and sea, this first novel in the Markham of the Marines trilogy introduces George Markham, lately of the 65th Regiment of Foot, now Lieutenant of Marines on His Britannic Majesty's frigate Hebe. As the winter of 1793 comes to the Mediterranean coast of France, Markham will have to prove he is a worthy officer . . . or die in the attempt.
Author Biography
David Donachie was born in Edinburgh in 1944. He has always had an abiding interest in British naval history of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, as well as in military history, including ancient Rome, the Middle Ages, and the clandestine services during the Second World War. He has more than fifty published novels to his credit, with over a million copies sold. David lives in Deal, the historic English seaport on the border of the English Channel and the North Sea.
