An Infamous Army

Alastair-Audley #4

Paperback, 512 pages

English language

Published Jan. 1, 2007 by Sourcebooks Landmark.

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978-1-4022-1007-5
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A novel of Wellington, Waterloo, love and war. In the summer of 1815, beneath the aegis of the Army of Occupation, Brussels is the gayest town in Europe. And the red-haired widow Lady Barbara Childe, renowned for being as outrageous as she is beautiful, is at the centre of the social whirl and of all that is fashionable and light-hearted. However, the city was a nest of intrigue --Napoleon threatened Europe--but the talk was only of this dazzling and tempestuous young. Every brilliant ball, supper, and concert in the feverish spring seemed to bring her a new conquest by storm. She is the talk of the ton. She flirts shamelessly, dresses outrageously, and scandalizes polite society. That doesn't stop one of her adorers--the dashing Colonel Charles Audley, an aide-de-camp to the Duke of Wellington-- from falling madly in love with the beautiful young widow--and proposing marriage. Threatened by the growing …

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Subjects

  • Historical - General
  • Fiction / Historical
  • 20th Century English Novel And Short Story
  • English Historical Fiction
  • Fiction
  • Fiction - Historical
  • Love stories
  • Regency fiction
  • Waterloo, Battle of, Waterloo, Belgium, 1815