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Product Identifiers
PublisherSimon & Schuster, Incorporated
ISBN-10074326519X
ISBN-139780743265195
eBay Product ID (ePID)3038431840
Product Key Features
Book TitleLove and Honor
Number of Pages416 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2004
TopicWar & Military, General, Historical
IllustratorYes
GenreFiction
AuthorRandall Wallace
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.2 in
Item Weight21.3 Oz
Item Length9.2 in
Item Width6.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2004-051761
Dewey Edition22
Dewey Decimal813/.54
SynopsisFew writers can claim as much experience as Randall Wallace when it comes to crafting unforgettable epics of love and war. In addition to six novels, he has written the screenplays for We Were Soldiers, Braveheart, and other blockbusters. LOVE AND HONOUR is perhaps his most ambitious project yet, taking readers back to the eighteenth century in a novel brimming with romance, heroism, and nail-biting twists of fate. A brave fighter and brilliant student of the art of war, Virginia cavalryman Kieran Selkirk is summoned to a clandestine meeting on the eve of the American Revolution. There he finds none other than Benjamin Franklin, who reveals that the British have asked Catherine the Great to provide twenty thousand Russian soldiers to help put down the resistance in America. Such a force, fresh from victory over the Turks, would certainly destroy any hope of American independence. Selkirk's mission is straightforward, if hardly simple: he is to travel to Russia disguised as a British mercenary, offer his services to the Tsarina in her fight against the Cossacks that threaten her throne, and convince her not to join the British in their war with America. In a narrative full of treach