A Trooper of the Finns: by Tom Bevan - a Real "Boy's Own" Adventure Novel
Tom Bevan (1868-1938) was a prolific and best-selling Young Adult author in
the first quarter of the twentieth century, specialising in historical
adventure. A devout Protestant Christian, he was published by the sponsors
of the 'Boy's Own Paper', the Religious Tract Society. If you want political
correctness and stringently plausible action, look elsewhere -- but if you
like your heroes boldly heroic, your villains utterly villainous, and your
yarns ripping, gripping, and very entertaining, look no further!
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Germany, AD 1630. A young Englishman shipwrecked on the Baltic Coast finds
himself caught up in the desperate struggles of the Thirty Years' War.
Joining the famous Finnish cavalry of King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden, he
is sent with a small and secret mission to rescue the fugitive 'Winter
Queen', Elizabeth of Bohemia, and her young son, Prince Rupert of the Rhine.
But dangers threaten on all sides -- Imperial cavalry, desperate and
starving outlaws, traitors in the camp ; and the wicked Count von Radzay has
made the capture of the fugitive royals his personal priority ...