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|title=Into The Valley of Death

|author=A L Berridge

|publisher=Penguin

|date=April 2013

|summary=A rip-roaring retelling of the Charge of the Light Brigade and the battles that went on before and after. Harry Ryder is a maverick cavalryman with no time for incompetent commanders, but his partners in war come from more obedient stock. Thoroughly enjoyable

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Master Harry-sahib saunters up the path of the family bungalow in some unnamed Indian ''British town'', puzzled to see the pathway choked with weeds, surprised by the absence of servants and disgusted by the swarming ants. There is worse inside. His father, the colonel, is dead on the floor. ''The money was gone, obviously, but it would take more than that to make a devoted soldier to blow his brains out. What had it done to him, this army he'd given his whole life to?''

For more tales from Britain's so-called glory days you might enjoy [[Under Enemy Colours by Sean Thomas Russell]]

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