Soldier of the Queen

by Griff Hosker Book 1 in the Soldier of the Queen series.

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In 1877, Jack Roberts faces a choice between dangerous factory work and enlistment after his family loses its home. Raised on stories of the Crimean War and the Heavy Brigade, he enters the British Army with a romantic idea of the red coat that is quickly tested by the realities of imperial service.

Jack is sent far from England and eventually finds himself among the defenders of a small mission station confronted by overwhelming numbers. The experience forces him to reconsider what courage, discipline and duty actually require. Against the background of the Anglo-Zulu War and Rorke’s Drift, the novel follows an ordinary recruit learning how little parade-ground expectations resemble combat on the imperial frontier.