Jack Steel Adventure Series Books 1-3: Man of Honour, Rules of War, Brothers in Arms
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IAIN GALE
JACK STEEL ADVENTURE SERIES BOOKS 1-3:
Man of Honour, Rules of War, Brothers in Arms
Contents
Cover
Title Page
Man of Honour
Rules of War
Brothers in Arms
Keep Reading
About the Author
Also by Iain Gale
Copyright
About the Publisher
IAIN GALE
Man of Honour
Jack Steel and the Blenheim Campaign,July to August 1704
Dedication
For Sarah
Map
Contents
Cover
Title Page
Dedication
Map
Prologue
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
Epilogue
Historical Note
Copyright
PROLOGUE
Upper Bavaria, July 1704
They had come here by stealth to carry the war deep into the south. An army of many nations: English and Scots, Hanoverians and Prussians, Hessians, Danes and Dutch. They had but one purpose: the defeat of France and her ally, Bavaria. The French King, Louis XIV, they knew to be a power-mad maniac, styling himself the Sun King. It was clear that he would not be content until he possessed all Europe, from Spain to Poland. And so it was, on this sultry day in early July, as afternoon drifted into evening, that fate brought these many thousands of men to Donauwörth, a little Bavarian town with its ancient high walls and ramparts.
Above it, at the top of a steep slope, stood a fort whose hill, inspired by its distinctive shape, the local people had long ago christened ‘Schellenberg’ – The Hill of the Bell. It was abundantly and worryingly clear to all the soldiers who now stood in its shadow, that before any decisive victory could be won, before they could bring the French to battle, drive them back to Paris and remove forever the Sun King’s threat, that this hill and its little fort would have to be taken.
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