Under the Red Dragon

A British novel of war and love, told by its hero. In 1854, Harry Hardinge, a young officer of the Welsh Fusiliers, waits in Winchester to leave for the war against Russia. Invited by Sir Madoc Lloyd, an old friend of his family, to a great estate in North Wales, he finds there Lady Estelle Cressingham, the woman he loves in silence, and a disturbing rival, Hawkesby Guilfoyle. Then the regiment sails for the Crimea: the battle of Inkerman, the trenches before Sebastopol, a lonely mission through enemy country. A vivid story that follows the soldiers who march under the flag of the red dragon.