Title: Too few for drums
First published: February 1988
Description: A classic tale of the Napoleonic wars from R.F. Delderfield. After the British victory at Busaco during the Peninsula campaigns of the Napoleonic Wars, Ensign Keith Graham finds himself cut off from the army, along with a sergeant and seven privates. This ill-assorted, tattered band is joined by a Welsh campfollower, Gwyneth, and she and Sergeant Fox help nineteen-year-old Graham achieve both manhood and leadership. Struggling through strange, often hostile country, with insufficient food and sometimes mutinous men, his one aim is to reach the coast and, hopefully, safety . . .
Subjects: Military History, British, Fiction, Peninsular War, 1807-1814, Soldiers, Juvenile fiction, Peninsular War (1807-1814) fast (OCoLC)fst01056924, Historical, Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815, Napoleonic Wars (1800-1815) fast (OCoLC)fst01032683, War stories, FICTION, Fiction, general, Large type books, Fiction, action & adventure, Fiction, historical, general, Great britain, fiction, France, fiction
Places: Portugal, Great Britain
Time periods: 19th century, Napoleonic Wars