James Ogilvie series by Philip McCutchan (1-3, 5)
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Overview: Philip McCutchan aka Robert Conington Galway, Duncan MacNeil (1920-1996) grew up in the naval atmosphere of Portsmouth Dockyard and developed a lifetime’s interest in the sea. Military history was an early interest resulting in several fiction books, from amongst his large output, about the British Army and its campaigns, especially in the last 150 years.
Genre: Fiction, Historical, Espionage, Mystery
#01. Drums Along the Khyber aka The First Command: James Ogilvie emerges from Sandhurst a young subaltern bound for his baptism of fire in India.
Two generations of Ogilvies have served the 114th Highlanders, the Queen’s Own Royal Strathspeys. James Ogilvie is the third generation. Pitchforked with mixed feelings into imperial Britain’s elite military academy, Sandhurst, and then into the family regiment, he finds himself in 1894 a subaltern en route to India – a torrid journey out that teaches him the first lessons of military life and the command of men. His initiation is made more difficult by the vindictive attentions of the adjutant, Captain Black, and by the high expectations placed on him by his own irascible father, his Divisional Commander on the North West Frontier of India. Ogilvie gets his first taste of action when the Royal Strathspeys are sent through the Khyber Pass to contain the rebel Ahmed Khan outside Jalalabad. Fighting the border tribesmen brings brushes with death, but also many opportunities for the kind of glory that can forge a distinguished military career. But as the campaign goes on, Ogilvie also starts to doubt the entire Imperial project.
#02. Lieutenant Of The Line aka Soldier of the Queen: James Ogilvie had emerged from Sandhurst as a young subaltern bound for his baptism of fire in India. Two generations of Ogilvies have served the 114th Highlanders, the Queen’s Own Royal Strathspeys. James Ogilvie is the third generation. But his career as a subaltern with the 114th Highlanders, The Queen’s Own Royal Strathspeys, has offered him ample proof of his superior officer’s observation that the Queen’s service ‘isn’t a damn bunfight for old ladies’. Especially when after a severe reprimand for a disastrous patrol, James is sent on another during which, it is hoped, he will redeem himself. Yet although this results in what is apparently ignominious failure, it brings an unexpected recruit who, in the ultimate confrontation at Fort Gazai, can help make all the difference between defeat and victory. But only James can make the bold and risky decision to use this man, unorthodox though it may be, to bring victory. And only success will justify the decision…
#03. Soldier of the Raj aka Sadhu on the Mountain Peak: Peshawar was the last outpost of the Raj facing the deadly Khyber Pass and the rugged Afghan hills.
And it was in these hills that trouble was brewing on an unprecedented scale. The attack would come from a Pathan warrior, Nashkar Ali Khan, incited by the word of the Sadhu, a holy man awaiting the sign of Mahomet to mobilise an army which could sweep down and annihilate Peshawar. It would be the first step towards driving the British out of the sub-continent. But if a political officer could be discreetly infiltrated into his camp, what dangers might not be averted? Working as a spy is a new trade for James Ogilvie, now a captain in the 114th Highlanders, the Queen’s Own Royal Strathspeys. Disguised as an arms seller, he sets out across the Indus to woo his way into the confidence of the Pathans with Gatling parts, Colts, and Mausers. But Ogilvie is faced with an impossible choice. He must involve the woman he loves, if he is to save not so much his own skin, as the whole future of the British Raj…
#05. The Heart of the Empire aka The Red Daniel: Exhausted and longing for relief after a bloody campaign in North West India, the Queen’s Own Royal Strathspeys never imagined they’d be enlisted in the struggle with South African Boers so soon. And the rules of the game have changed. Faced with an entirely different calibre of enemy – civilised, respectable and Christian – traditional military tactics are irrelevant. Challenged on home ground, the Boer army have an advantage which the British with all their might in numbers cannot quash. Kitchener himself dictates that the British must dirty their hands with espionage. So when Captain James Ogilvie is given a special assignment revolving round the most exquisite diamond in South Africa, the Red Daniel, it is seen as the perfect opportunity to infiltrate the Boer ranks.
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