· Elaine wrote: When reading a biography of Georgette Heyer I came across a rather lovely anecdote from her son who remembers being taken, as a child, to the United Services Institute, where they found a model of the Battle of Waterloo. His mother began to describe it to him, too absorbed to notice the arrival of a party of school children filing in behind her whose mistress told them to hush Estimated Reading Time: 4 mins. · A Dramatic Tale of Waterloo; Georgette Heyer's "An Infamous Army" Is a Historical Novel of Unusual Interest AN INFAMOUS ARMY. By Georgette Heyer. pp. New York: Doubleday, Doran Co., www.doorway.ruted Reading Time: 1 min. An Infamous Army: A Novel of Wellington, Waterloo, Love and War - Ebook written by Georgette Heyer. Read this book using Google Play Books app on your PC, android, iOS devices. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read An Infamous Army: A Novel of Wellington, Waterloo, Love and War/5(19).
When Gervase Frant, Seventh Earl of St Erth, returns at last from Waterloo to his family seat at Stanyon, he enjoys a less than welcome homecoming. Georgette Heyer was the most successful and best-loved novelist of her day, and The Quite Gentleman displays all the skills which won the hearts of her large and enduring audience. Sale price: $ or 1 credit. Free with day trial. Bodies from the Library. Selected Lost Tales of Mystery and Suspense by Masters of the Golden Age. By: Tony Medawar, Agatha Christie, Georgette Heyer, and others. Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins. Unabridged. Overall. out of 5 stars Have you read Georgette Heyer's "An Infamous Army," supposedly so accurate a description of Waterloo that it was prescribed reading at Sandhurst? I've yet to do so, but it's on my TBR. I've also fallen in love with Bernard Cornwell's Richard Sharpe series. Worth reading if you haven't done so already. Reply Delete.
A Novel of Love, War, Wellington and Waterloo. by Georgette Heyer. Paperback, pages | purchase. close overlay Buy Featured Book Title An Infamous Army Subtitle. Georgette Heyer has always been good at adventure stories set amongst the British upper class, but in this she has far outdone herself. Her research is astounding. The second half of the book largely consists of an enormously through (about pages long) play by play account of the battle of Waterloo, and its' immediate lead up and aftermath. An Infamous Army is a novel by Georgette Heyer. In this novel Heyer combines her penchant for meticulously researched historical novels with her more popular period romances. So in addition to being a Regency romance, it is one of the most historically accurate and vividly narrated descriptions of the Battle of Waterloo.
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