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Drummer Boy
Hardcover (June 1998) |
'The shells exploded above them with a noise that deafened all around. Rockets began whizzing through the air. The acrid smell of gunpowder attacked Charley's nostrils. His mind rocked and spun with the racket. He had never been so terrified in all his life.'
Charley is a drummer boy of the 44th Foot, East Essex Regiment. Virtually an orphan, for the first time he is wanted as he makes friends in the regiment. It is an adventure of a lifetime - as long as no one discovers his secret... But nothing has prepared him for the Crimean War and the Charge of the Light Brigade... |