Buy this book on-line KILWORTH, GARRY DOUGLAS: : ATTACK ON THE REDAN: Sergeant Jack Crossman and the Battle for SebastopolLONDON.CONSTABLE,2003. ISBN 1841194506.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj. Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,
wrap- around,colour,pictorial artwork by John Groves,illustrated dw/dj; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Both head+foot of spine/backstrip of dw/dj minisculely bumped with reciprocal creasing.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,solid and sound,no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - possibly unread? Bright, crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original plain,plum coloured cloth boards with bright,crisp,stamped silver gilt letters to spine/backstrip,and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,1-282pp [paginated] includes 10 chapters; plus [unpaginated] half-title+ title pages and a dedication page.The author's fifth and final book in the
"Fancy Jack" Crossman series.
The year is 1855 and the port of Sebastopol is still under siege by the allies with the Russians putting up a vigorous defence.Jack Crossman and his hardy band of malcontents find their own ways to harass the enemy in the hills and valleys around the city.Russian sharpshooters mysteriously disappear as Crossman and his men chip away at the enemy's morale.
But these foxhunts serve merely as a warm-up to the British attack on the Redan,a fortification guarding Sebastopol. The British attack,when it does come,is ill-planned and ill-advised,ending in total disaster and forcing Crossman to bear witness to the wholesale massacre of his fellow soldiers.Two months after this hard-hitting failure,French and Sardinian forces foil a massive Russian counterattack and Sebastopol is left to the allies.
At last the Crimean War is over,and Sergeant Crossman learns that he is to continue his life of espionage and sabotage in a new setting,both dangerous and exotic - India.
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