captain of dragoons [ oxford children's library] [Import] [Hardcover]

ronald welch (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 216 pages
• Publisher: Oxford University Press; New Ed edition (1974)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0192770659
• ISBN-13: 978-0192770653
• Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,500,086 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: Captain of Dragoons (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.

Captain of Dragoons: Charles Carey is a Captain of Dragoons in the Duke of Marlborough's campaign. First part deals with the daily life of a cavalry officer of the time. The second part casts Charles Carey as a spy for the Duke in France. Other topics: snuff, the fractured German states, European politics of the time, and Charles Carey's swordsmanship. My copy is a discard from an English secondary school library.