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Within the Western Balkans, Matthew Hervey encounters bloody battle with the Turks. January 1829: George IV is on the throne, Wellington is Britain's prime-minister, and snow is falling heavily on the London roads as Lieutenant-Colonel Matthew Hervey is summoned for the Horse Guards in the expectancy of control of his regiment, the 6th Light Dragoons. However the advantages of long term contentment athome imply reductions in the military, and Hervey is informed the Sixth should be reduced into a single squadron. With his long-term programs in disarray, he undertakes alternatively a six-month project being an observer with the Russian military, an endeavor in the individual request of the commander-in-chief, Lord Hill. Soon Hervey, his buddy E Fairbrother and his trustworthy lick, Exclusive Brown, are cruising north to St Petersburg, and from there onto the Western Balkans, chair of the ferocious battle between Russia and the Ottoman Empire. Hervey is intended to be an impartial viewer in the strategy, but quickly the conditions -- and their own character --launch him right into a more productive part.