An Infamous Army
by Georgette Heyer · first published 1937
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A novel of Wellington, Waterloo, love and war. In the summer of 1815, beneath the aegis of the Army of Occupation, Brussels is the gayest town in Europe. And the red-haired widow Lady Barbara Childe, renowned for being as outrageous as she is beautiful, is at the centre of the social whirl and of all that is fashionable and light-hearted. However, the city was a nest of intrigue --Napoleon threatened Europe--but the talk was only of this dazzling and tempestuous young. Every brilliant ball, supper, and concert in the feverish spring seemed to bring her a new conquest by storm. She is the ta
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The Bible. Escape From Reason (Francis Schaeffer). Why modern thought is the way it is. An Infamous Army (Georgette Heyer). Regency romance combined with a fabulous account of the Battle of Waterloo. The C Programming Language (Kernighan & Ritchie). So clearly written that I picked up C over a long weekend…
on “Ask HN: Favourite books?” ↗"An Infamous Army" by Georgette Heyer has a very good account also.
on “The Battle of Waterloo, as it happened on June 18, 1815” ↗"infamous army" by Georgette Heyer (she pretty much invented the bodice-ripper genre which Barbara Cartland drove a long way afterward) was on the reading list at cranwell college. Best description of the battle of…
on “Notes from a Sun Tzu Skeptic (2019)” ↗…College is the Royal Air Force college (for those like me who didn't know). But, while Georgette Heyer invented the Regency romance, hers are not "bodice-rippers". They're far better than that. "An Infamous Army" is kind of a strange book. It's half a romance, and half a war story, and it doesn't quite work as either one, but it works well as itself.
on “Notes from a Sun Tzu Skeptic (2019)” ↗