Too Few For Drums by RF Delderfield. 1st ed 1964. H/C with jacket. 212 pp.

The unputdownable adventures of British soldiers cut off from the main army.

Nineteen-year-old Ensign Graham takes charge of a sergeant and seven private soldiers after they are cut off from the main British army during the Peninsular campaigns of the Napoleonic era. This tattered band, as ill an assortment of heroes and villains as one could well find, experience many desperate adventures and hair-breadth escapes until in a tense climax, when most of his comrades have fallen by the wayside, Graham's steadfastness is finally rewarded.

First published 1964 by Hodder and Stoughton, London. Condition: Good. Jacket has scuff marks and wear and tear.