4 Novels by George Shipway
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Overview: George Shipway was born in India while it was still the British Raj. In 1928 the author was commissioned into the Indian Army, in which he served as a cavalry officer for almost twenty years.
He returned to England after India became independent and from 1949-68 he taught at a boys’ preparatory school. Here the scholastic ambiance, together with successive archaeological revelations that in part confirmed the evidence of Homer’s poems, aroused his latent desire for knowledge of a period which to him had so far remained obscure.
He travelled extensively in Greece and Crete, and combined his classical and military training in an attempt to extract a core of solid historical truth from the legends of the Greek Heroic Age.
Genre: Historical Fiction
Warrior in Bronze: Tells the story of how Agamemnon used his cunning, courage, and prowess to become King of the Achaeans.
King in Splendour: Having established himself on Mycenae’s throne, matching ruthlessness with greater ruthlessness, Agamemnon accepts in all their gravity the burdens of a kingdom. His grand design is the unification of Achaea in preparation for a full campaign against the city state of Troy, long responsible for the interruption of shipments of grain westwards from the Crimea – with drastic economic consequences for Achaea.
Free Lance: India in 1800: teeming, chaotic, corrupt, filled with rich prizes for Englishmen brave or ruthless enough to seize opportunities. And neither Lieutenant Hugo Amoury nor his friend Charles Marriott, humble clerk of the East India Company, intend to miss the chances that come their way; both mean to take all that can be wrenched from this vast and violent land. Success will mean riches, women, power and glory; failure: a lifetime of rotting in some forsaken office or army barracks. So together they set out, the young merchant and the young military adventurer – to carve themselves a kingdom founded on money and blood.
Strangers in the Land: Vellore: just another garrison town in the sprawling patchwork of territories that is British India in 1806.
For the young subalterns of the Madras Native Infantry, life is tedious, dusty and smelly, alleviated only by hunting, drinking and visits to Mrs Rorke’s discreet little house of pleasure, where the whores are for officers only. Of the millions of natives who surround them, many among India’s new masters know little – and care less.
Before long they will have cause to regret their ignorance. For soon men and women will die in Vellore amid scenes of carnage and savagery which foreshadow the Great Mutiny of half-a-century later. Soon, for the white strangers in this violent, unpredictable land, the insignificant garrison town will be famous. As Vellore – Place of Blood.
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