Portugal 1826Newly returned from India, Matthew Hervey joins a party of officers sent to lend support to the Portugese regent.But the Peninsula is a place redolent with memories.For it was here as a seventeen-year-old cornet that Hervey had his first taste of military action.The French had forced the British army into ignominious retreat until, under the leadership of Sir John Moore, they made a defiant stand at Corunna. As he prepares for battle once more, Hervey finds himself confronting ghosts from his past ... 'Captain Matthew Hervey is as splendid a hero as ever sprang from an author's pen.' The Times