Goff Family War Thrillers

by Max Hennessy 3 books in this series

The Goff Family War Thrillers form a three-volume military family saga spanning the Crimean War, the high Victorian empire, the First World War and the Second World War. Successive generations serve the same cavalry tradition even as horses and lances give way to machine guns, armoured vehicles and tanks.

The sequence treats the regiment as both inheritance and burden. By following the family through imperial campaigns, civil conflict and industrialised warfare, it shows how military identity survives while the social position, technology and tactics of the cavalry are transformed.

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Books in this series (3 books)

1. Soldier of the Queen

Max Hennessy

First published 1980

4.3(2,752)

Colby Goff enters military life as a young cavalryman and receives his first brutal lesson in war during the Crimean campaign of 1854, when he rides in the Charge of the Light Brigade at Balaclava. The experience fixes his identity around the regiment and begins a…

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2. Blunted Lance

Max Hennessy

First published 1981

4.5(1,957)

The end of an era, and the birth of a new kind of combat... The Regiment the 19th Lancers mattered to the Goffs, generation after generation, more than anything else. From the Sudan to South Africa, from Flanders to Palestine from the charge and skirmish on…

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3. The Iron Stallions

Max Hennessy

First published 1982

4.5(2,487)

The final tale of a fighting family, in the greatest conflict of all time... In the 1920s, Josh Goff runs away from school and enlists under another name in the ranks of what to his family was always simply known as The Regiment. Soon enough, he…

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