An Act of CourageBadajoz: Christmas 1826 Matthew Hervey of the 6th Light Dragoons is a prisoner of the Spanish, incarcerated in the infamous fortress of Badajoz. As he plans his escape, his thoughts return to the year 1812 when he was a cornet in Wellingtons Peninsula Army. He and the Sixth had survived Corunna to endure three more years of brutal fighting that would culminate in one of the most vital and vicious confrontations of the campaign the siege of Badajoz.

Rose and Crown (1952) reflects O'Casey's experience of making a new home in England where

drowning ghosts

making the killing not 'excessive use of force' but a tragic accident

finding solace only with her manuscripts

the consuls son discovered buried in the units basement

to the last threatening redneck

And then he is told to arrest his own wife

Fisher's a lawyer now

Sweeping in scope

now finds himself in November 1944 in a bleak seaside town in Occupied Holland

Only one of the Unconsecrated could put this book down

and becomes centrally involved in one of the most extraordinary events in English history - the Mutiny at the Nore