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THE SHADOW OF THE EAGLE

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THE SHADOW OF THE EAGLE

published 1997
by
John Murray (Publishers) Limited, London

ISBN 0 7195 5754 2
A black cloth bound book with gilt lettering to the spine in Fine condition in a Very Good condition unclipped dust wrapper. There is a tiny nick on the lower inner corner of the back flap.

Jacket blurb

THE SHADOW OF THE EAGLE
Richard Woodman

It is 1814 and Napoleon has abdicated as Emperor of the French. King Louis XVIII is brought out of his English exile and escorted back to France by an Allied squadron commanded by the Duke of Clarence. The `Great War' is at an end and Europe pre-pares to celebrate the return of legitimate monarchy. Or so it seems on the surface.

But the victorious Allies are uncertain what to do with the quondam emperor and are increasingly suspicious of one another. Alexander I, the capricious Tsar of Russia, believes he is the saviour of the world, while Great Britain whose sea-power has guaranteed victory at sea and contributed to the military success of Russia, Austria and Prussia, remains at war with the United States of America. Out of the ashes of defeat, France's greatest survivor, Talleyrand, prepares to restore his beaten country to the forefront of European politics. Amid this upheaval, discontented Bonapartists plot to restore the eagle whose shadow still lies across the continent.

Attending King Louis, Captain Nathaniel Drinkwater is alarmed to receive secret intelligence that a new and imminent threat exists to peace. Seizing an opportunity he alone can exploit, Drinkwater sets aside the benefits of quiet retirement to risk his life and reputation in preventing disaster befalling his country.

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The author

Richard Woodman, after service in the Merchant Navy as an indentured midshipman, qualified as a navigator and served as a junior officer in cargo liners and ocean weather ships. Joining the Trinity House Service in 1967 he has commanded lighthouse tenders and a squadron of Guardships in the English Channel. He won the 1978 Barbara Harmer Award given by the Marine Society for Keepers of the Sea, an original work on the maritime history of Trinity House.

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Dust wrapper spine area, front and book's spine
DW spine area
Dust wrapper front
Books spine

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