Ensign Carey [Import] [Hardcover]

Ronald Welch (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 175 pages
• Publisher: Oxford University Press (August 5, 1976)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0192713868
• ISBN-13: 978-0192713865
• Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,543,773 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Uniformly excellent!, October 25, 2009

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John B. Goode "JBG" (Earth) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Ensign Carey (Hardcover)

This is one of the series of children's books written by Ronald Welch on the noble Carey family. They are all semi-historical fiction and based on historical events of British/English history. These books have been out of print and all very hard to find. As a whole, they are all very easy to read and wonderfully entertaining. They are each based on a war as they are historical military fiction, but even as children's books, Mr. Welch describes the terrible on conditions that the combatants faced and not just the heroics. Conditions such as poor food, poor hygiene, death, disease and the horror of war are all described. But to balance that are also heroism, friendship, gentleness and kindness. I only read one of them as a child, but through the wonders of the internet I was able to buy them all many years after they went out of print. My reviews on each book in the series is just a bare bones description on Amazon so that fans of the series are able to place them chronologically. I feel that all the books are uniformly excellent and I love them all so I won't gush how good they are each time.

William Carey: Indian Mutiny. This book is in 2 parts, the first part has an interesting look at the cracksmen of their day (burglars) and life in 1850's England. The second part deals with the Indian Mutiny, the East India Company, life in Colonial India and the purchase system (which is a recurring them in some of his books.) My copy is a discard from a school library in New Zealand.