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01749cam a2200313 a 4500 001 5D6901F86BF311DEA13FF332A8D7520A 003 SILO 005 20090730151322 008 070809s2008 enk 000 1 eng 020 $a 0749080523 (hbk.) 020 $a 9780749080525 (hbk.) 040 $a UKM $c UKM $d SILO $d BTCTA $d CDX $d YDXCP $d VP@ $d JAO $d JIU $d SILO 042 $a ukblcatcopy 043 $a e-uk--- 082 04 $a 823.914 $2 22 100 1 $a Marston, Edward. 245 1 $a Soldier of fortune / $c Edward Marston. 260 $a London : $b Allison & Busby, $c 2008. 300 $a 331 p. ; $c 22 cm. 520 $a The first in a series of adventure novels featuring Captain Rawson - spy, linguist, sportsman, duellist, ladies' man and career soldier involved in the campaigns of the Duke of Marlborough during the war of the Spanish Succession. In 1685, young Daniel Rawson witnesses the regiment of his fierce Protestant father being destroyed by the troops of the Royal Army's second-in-command, John Churchill, and his Dutch mother narrowly avoiding rape at the hands of a soldier from the same platoon. After his father has been executed, Rawson and his mother leave Devon and sail for the Netherlands. In 1688, he returns to England as a soldier in the Dutch Army, supporting William of Orange in his bid to replace James II on the throne. 650 0 $a Soldiers $v Fiction. 651 0 $a Great Britain $x History $y 1660-1714 $v Fiction. 651 0 $a Great Britain $x History, Military $y 1603-1714 $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Historical fiction. $2 gsafd 941 $a 2 952 $l MXPG943 $d 20180720033028.0 952 $l GDPF771 $d 20170418064634.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=5D6901F86BF311DEA13FF332A8D7520A 994 $a 02 $b JIUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search