While the major fighting of the war moves to the south in the summer of 1779, a British force of fewer than a thousand Scottish infantry, backed by three sloops-of-war, sails to the desolate and fog-bound coast of New England. Establishing a...
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Автор: Фрейзер Джордж Макдональд
Серия: Flashman Papers #12
Язык: английский
Год: 2006
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