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1796. Desperate for gold and grain, France focuses on the elimination of Austria as an enemy. Twenty-seven-year-old Napoleon Bonaparte joins a ragged army on a ravaged shore to create a diversion to support the main effort against Vienna. Promised 'honour, glory and riches' by his fifth commander in two years, veteran Andre Jobert leads his light horsemen, hardened by relentless combat and bitter from endless privations, against the determined and disciplined ranks of the Austrian-Hungarian Empire onto the battlefields of Lodi, Castiglione, Arcole and Rivoli.

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Rob McLaren is an emerging self-published author of a series of Napoleonic military adventures. In the style of Bernard Cornwall's hero, Richard Sharpe, the stories follow the adventures of a French cavalryman, Andre Jobert, during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars. While serving as an armoured cavalry officer in the Australian Army, Rob spent twenty years writing at a corporate level. In the last five years he has discovered a passion for storytelling. As a veteran of active operational duty, Rob draws on his experience to bring authenticity to his stories, immersing the reader in gritty and unforgiving historic realism. Rob is supported by a superb professional editorial team and an exemplary graphic designer. He released his second novel, Duty on a Lesser Front, in September 2021, with the third, Yet Another General, to be released in March 2022. Rob is currently writing the fourth adventure in the series, Neither Up Nor Down. Rob is a member of the Napoleonic Historical Society, the Historical Novel Society of Australasia, the Australian Society of Authors and the Queensland Writers Centre. Rob, now based south of Brisbane in Yugumbeh country, is a passionate horseman and enjoys table-top wargaming.

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