Cawnpore is retaken, but they have come too late to stop the slaughter—the relieving British soldiers can only stare at the ill-sited, poorly-defended entrenchment and shake their heads, wondering why. One of only two survivors, Colonel Alex Sheridan is numb. His wife and newborn son lie dead. But now he must join General Havelock's force of barely a thousand men as they fight their way through to the besieged garrison at Lucknow.
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She [Stuart] pays strict attention to the facts . . . even the most critical historians will applaud her research. -- The Historical Novels Review
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Under various pseudonyms, V.A. Stuart wrote several series of military fiction and numerous other novels, her settings spanning history and the globe, from the Napoleonic wars of Europe to India under the British Raj. Born in 1914, she was in Burma with the British Fourteenth Army, became a lieutenant, and was decorated with the Burma Star and the Pacific Star. McBooks Press will be publishing both her Alexander Sheridan Series, set during the Crimean War and the Sepoy rebellions in 1850s India, and later her Philip Hazard Saga, tales of the Royal Navy, compared favorably to Forester’s Hornblower books and called "in many ways . . . a superior creation."
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The Sepoy Mutiny,
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This review is from: The Cannons of Lucknow (Alexander Sheridan Adventures) (Vol 4) (Paperback)
Ms. Stuart does very well as a writer of historical fiction. She has a good command of the period and things of which she writes. The events are vividly chronicled, and accurate from a historical perspective insofar as I can determine from independent research. I would caution that the Lucknow book should be read after the preceding two books in the Alex Sheridan series--The Sepoy Mutiny and Massacre at Cawnpore. Ms. Stuart's works leave me reflecting on how hard it was to live in those times and places. Life was so brutal.
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This review is from: The Cannons of Lucknow (Alexander Sheridan Adventures, No. 4) (Paperback)
The Cannons of Lucknow serves mainly to connect the events depicted in Massacre at Cawnpore with The Heroic Garrison.
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not a very good series,
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This review is from: The Cannons of Lucknow (Alexander Sheridan Adventures) (Vol 4) (Paperback)
The Sheridan series is pretty weak. V.A. Stuart is no Bernard Cornwell. The author knows her history well enough, but the main character isn't very interesting, nor does he really do anything interesting, despite being involved in the Crimean War and the Indian Mutiny. On the whole, I was glad I got these from the library rather than buying them.
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