Held Fast For England: A Tale of the Siege of Gibraltar
Held Fast For England: A Tale of the Siege of Gibraltar
Bob Repton is the kind of boy teachers despair of and fellow students adore. Sharp, daring, and never short of a scheme, his "bright ideas" have a way of causing chaos in the schoolroom. But when one escapade too many lands him expelled, the boy finds himself launched into a far stranger classroom: the siege lines of Gibraltar, where the combined armies of France and Spain have surrounded the Rock and the British garrison fights to hold the key to the Mediterranean. The year is 1779. For three grueling years, the fortress endures bombardment, starvation, and the endless machinations of its enemies. In this crucible, Bob's talent for troublemaking transforms from a liability into an asset. Whether smuggling messages through enemy lines, devising defenses against Spanish fire ships, or simply keeping the men's spirits alive, the former scamp discovers that the same ingenuity that made him a terror at school makes him invaluable in war. This is adventure fiction in the grand Henty tradition: action, history, and a young hero proving himself through wit and courage.
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