Conquest
By: Julian Stockwin
Series: Thomas Kydd -- 12; Kydd
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton; Hodder Export
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9781444711974; 9781444711967
Subjects: Thomas Kydd (Fictitious character); Fiction; Great Britain. Royal Navy; Great Britain; Naval History; Trafalgar, Battle of, 1805; History
Description: Captain Thomas Kydd's first mission after the triumph of Trafalgar is to capture and protect a fragile new British colony: nineteenth-century Cape Town. Kydd joins an expedition to take the Dutch-held city, but even if the British can defeat the enemy and take possession of the capital, there is still more fighting to be done. Kydd and his men must fight off attacks by the enemy from all sides, while braving the wild beasts and hostile environment of Africa's vast and savage hinterland.