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Allan Mallinson

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Allan Mallinson is a British author, military historian and former Army officer whose work draws extensively on his experience of cavalry service. During a military career of thirty-five years, he served in several countries and commanded a regiment of light dragoons. He began writing while still in the Army, initially producing military history before turning to historical fiction.

Mallinson is best known for the Matthew Hervey series, which follows a fictional British cavalry officer from the Battle of Waterloo through the imperial conflicts of the early nineteenth century. Beginning with A Close Run Thing, the novels combine military action with detailed accounts of regimental life, strategy and changing political loyalties. He has also written non-fiction studies of the British Army and the First World War, including The Making of the British Army and 1914: Fight the Good Fight.

Periods and events

Battle of Corunna1809-01-16 Battle of Waterloo1815-06-18 British Conquest of the Cape Colony1806 CE East India Company Rule1757–1858 CE Georgian Empire and Atlantic World1714–1837 CE Late Georgian Reform Era1815–1832 CE Rise of the Zulu Kingdom and the Mfecanec. 1816–1828; wider upheaval continued into the 1830s Siege of Badajoz1812-03-16–1812-04-06 War of 18121812–1815 CE

Historical fiction

Historical fiction series by Allan Mallinson (1 series)

Matthew Hervey in Order

by Allan Mallinson 14 books 4.2(11,911)

The Matthew Hervey novels follow an English cavalry officer from the final campaign against Napoleon into the unsettled decades after Waterloo. Beginning as a young cornet in the 6th Light Dragoons, Hervey advances through command while trying to reconcile professional duty, personal honour, family obligations and the often…

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