Escape from Hell aka Sailors on Horseback

259 Pages·2016·1.16 MB·English

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Praise for V.A. Stuart
“[Hazard] is a worthy successor to the Horatio Hornblower
series, and make no bones about it.”
—Publishers Weekly
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“History is brought accurately and vividly to life.”
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British garrison at Ghorabad. Hazard and the men of the illip
Shannon’s Naval Brigade are put under the command of
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Colonel Cockayne, a cavalry officer whose own wife and z
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daughter are among those caught in the siege. Cockayne r
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learn firsthand just how cruel land-based warfare can be. ,
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This final installment of the Phillip Hazard novels delivers o
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all the excitement, psychological drama, and historical
accuracy fans of the series have come to expect. Hazard
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and his men have no choice but to follow the questionable
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orders of the cavalry colonel who commands them. But the
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guilty and innocent alike, in an eerie foreshadowing of the
coming century’s scorched-earth tactics and brutal wars for
independence.
ISBN 1-59013-064-2
the Phillip Hazard Novels, No.8 51395
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ESCAPE FROM HELL
Historical Fiction by V.A. Stuart
Published by McBooks Press
THE ALEXANDER SHERIDAN ADVENTURES
Victors and Lords
The Sepoy Mutiny
Massacre at Cawnpore
The Cannons of Lucknow
The Heroic Garrison
THE PHILLIP HAZARD NOVELS
The Valiant Sailors
The Brave Captains
Hazard’s Command
Hazard of Huntress
Hazard in Circassia
Victory at Sebastopol
Guns to the Far East
Escape from Hell
For a complete list of nautical and military fiction
published by McBooks Press, please see pages 251–254.
the Phillip Hazard Novels, No.8
ESCAPE
FROM
HELL
by
V. A. STUART
MCBOOKS PRESS, INC.
ITHACA, NEW YORK
Published by McBooks Press 2005
Copyright © 1976 and 1977 by Vivian Stuart
First Published in Great Britain by Robert Hale & Co. Ltd.,
Also published as Sailors on Horseback and Action Front
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Cover: 1857, Delhi Stormed, lithograph by G. McCulloch after
Captain G.F. Atkinson. Courtesy of Mary Evans Picture Library
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Stuart, V. A.
Escape from hell / by V.A. Stuart.
p. cm. — (The Phillip Hazard novels ; #8)
ISBN 1-59013-064-2 (trade pbk. : alk. paper)
1. Hazard, Phillip Horatio (Fictitious character)—Fiction. 2. Great
Britain—History, Naval—19th century—Fiction. 3. Lucknow
(India)—History—Siege, 1857—Fiction. 4. Great Britain. Royal
Navy—Officers—Fiction. 5. British—India—Fiction. I. Title.
PR6063.A38E83 2005
823’.92—dc22
2004024252

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the house opposite Walter Winchell’s,
and the American Booksellers’ Fair, 1975.
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