books by R.F. Delderfield (marshals horseman military)

books by R.F. Delderfield

books:

The Avenue Goes to War 1940-1947 (The Avenue, Vol 2)
R.F. Delderfield

Ballantine Books, 1973

Brilliantly paced, rich and exciting in narrative. the Avenue Goes to War Vol II of The Avenue, is an extraordinary novel of people whose lives are intertwined in the years during the second world war.

The Dreaming Suburb: Book 1 1919-1940
R. F. Delderfield

Coronet Books, 1971

Theirs Was the Kingdom (Swann Family Saga)

Sourcebooks Landmark, 2009

The eagerly awaited reissue of the second novel in R. F. Delderfield's classic God Is an Englishman series Theirs Was the Kingdom is a stirring saga of England in the late 19th century, as the Industrial Revolution takes hold, forever changing the landscape of England and her people. The 1880s in England were a laissez-faire decade of national optimism and prosperity, of rampant colonialism, typhoid epidemics, and a Diamond Jubilee. This ...

Napoleon's Marshals

Cooper Square Press, 2012

Napoleon's Marshals led the troops of France in battles across Europe from 1804 to 1815. A mixed group of twenty-six men, some of the Marshals came from aristocratic backgrounds, some had originally pursued tradesmen careers as drapers and bakers, and others rose from total poverty to hold the highest positions in the empire below the emperor himself. Delderfield's exciting chronicle of these men and their battles tells of their origins, their ...

Seven Men of Gascony (Classics of Military Fiction)
R.F. Delderfield

McBooks Press, 2001

Comrades and heroes, the seven warriors slog through the swirl and tumult of the Napoleonic Wars, fighting for their lives across Europe, until they confront their destiny at Waterloo. This stirring saga is drawn from true stories left behind by the soldiers of the First Empire, a dramatic tale of triumph and defeat.

All Over Town
R. f. delderfield

Simon & Schuster, 1977

Give Us This Day (God Is an Englishman)

Sourcebooks Landmark, 2010

in the beloved classic God Is an Englishman saga "A heroic finale to the author's cavalcade of middle-class life." -W. B. Hill, Best Sellers Sweeping Adam Swann and three generations of his family into the tide of events that followed Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee in 1897, this stirring novel confronts them, and England, with the social upheaval of a rapidly changing world. The same revolutionary ferment that stirs up labor unrest ...

To Serve Them All My Days, A Novel
R. F. Delderfield

Simon and Schuster, 1972

A novel about a teacher and the great school whose headmaster he becomes. David Powlett-Jones, the headmaster survives the dreary carnage of the Western Front to become a teacher at a remote English "public" school, gradually maturing from a shell-shocked veteran scarcely older than his charges into a great headmaster, whose influence touches and changes the lives of hundreds of boys who pass through his care.

Avenue
R. f. delderfield

Simon & Schuster, 1969

Post of Honor
R. F. Delderfield

Pocket, 1978

Napoleon in Love
R. F. Delderfield

Simon & Schuster, 1979

the intimate and fascinating story of Napoleon's private life and loves by the beloved author of God Is an Englishman and A Horseman Riding.

Stop at a Winner
R. F. Delderfield

Simon & Schuster, 1978

'Delderfield goes to war--World War II at home in England--and the result is a typically genial but some what half-hearted nostalgia-farce-satire that falls somewhere between Evelyn Waugh and No Time for Sergeants. Pedlar Pascoe is a sweetly cloddish country giant who enlists in the R.A.F. to avoid going home to his fierce Gypsy mother. Horace Pope is a shifty Cockney whose attempts to avoid the draft have all failed. Together they are a ...

Diana
R. F. Delderfield

Pocket, 1973

Beautiful, resourceful, treacherous, vulnerable. She was a woman full of contradictions and he would never stop loving her. As a young girl Diana is irrepressible, untameable and, to the orphaned John, endlessly fascinating. Only daughter of a wealthy businessman, she is drawn both to a rigorous outdoor life in the west country with her horses and the glittering London society that will be her destiny. They spend a magical unconventional ...

The Avenue Goes to War (The Avenue Story: Volume 2)
R.F. Delderfield

Hodder & Stoughton Ltd, 1977

The Unjust Skies
R. F. Delderfield

Corgi, 1971

A Horseman Riding By - Book 2 - Post of Honour
R. F. Delderfield

Coronet / Hodder, 1978

The Green Gauntlet: A Horseman Riding By Book Three (Bk. 3)
R F Delderfield

Coronet, 1995

Paul and Claire Craddock have grown older in years - but not in spirit. World War II is over. But for Craddock and his family there are new battles to be fought and won. The new property laws enable speculators to reap huge profits from agricultural lands, and Paul's livelihood is threatened. With the help of his children and children's children, Paul struggles to preserve the happiness and peace he has built up over the years. In doing so, he ...

Long Summer Day (A Horseman Riding By, Book 1)
R. F. Delderfield

Coronet, 1995

Paul Craddock is still young when he is invalided out of the army after the Boer War and he discovers the neglected estate of Shallowford in a secluded corner of Devon. It seems remote from the march of progress. But as storm clouds gather over Europe, Paul learns that no part of England, however remote, can escape the challenge of the times.

To Serve Them All My Days
R. F. Delderfield

Simon & Schuster, 1972

Young David Powlett-Jones, a Welsh miner's son, is invalided home from France when he suffers severe shell shock on the Western Front. At a remote English public school in Devon the debilitated veteran, himself barely out of his teens, decides temporarily to try his hand at teaching while striving to awaken from the nightmare of World War I -- the national catastrophe that sweeps England out of the comfortable certainties of the Victorian Age ...