Honour Be Damned: A Markham of the Marines Novel - Paperback

by David Donachie (Author)

Volume #3 of the Markham of the Marines trilogy. As the war with France drags on, the Revolution is turning on itself. Markham and his men are assigned to the sloop Syilphide under the impetuous Captain Germain and must escort a group of French Royalists behind enemy lines. It is not long before Germain's foolhardy hunt for glory throws Markham into the midst of a desperate ship-to-ship action.

Author Biography

David Donachie was born in Edinburgh in 1944. He has always had an abiding interest in British naval history of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, as well as in military history, including ancient Rome, the Middle Ages, and the clandestine services during the Second World War. He has more than fifty published novels to his credit, with over a million copies sold. David lives in Deal, the historic English seaport on the border of the English Channel and the North Sea.