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Brigadier Allan Mallinson is an English author and serving cavalry officer the British Army. Mallinson originally trained for the Anglican priesthood, but joined the army in 1969 and served with the infantry in Malaya, Cyprus and Northern Ireland. He commanded the 13th/18th Royal Hussars in Cyprus and Norway. He has served as the British Military Attaché in Rome.

Mallinson is best known for writing a series of novels chronicling the (fictional) life of Matthew Hervey, a junior officer serving in the (fictional) British 6th Light Dragoons from the late Napoleonic Wars through subsequent colonial conflicts in North America and India. Mallinson has also written Light Dragoons, a non-fictional history of the four light calvalry regiments of British cavalry, one of which (in its merged form) he commanded.

The Hervey novels are similar to the Sharpe novels of Bernard Cornwell, although Hervey is a "proper" officer and not raised from the ranks, in the cavalry not the infantry, and campaigning mainly after (not during) the Napoleonic Wars.

In UK hardback publication order, the Hervey novels are:

1. A Close Run Thing (1999) : Cornet Hervey's adventures before and during the Battle of Waterloo.
2. The Nizam's Daughters (2000) : Hervey in India, defending the fictional princely state of Chintal (published in the US as Honourable Company).
3. A Regimental Affair (2001) : problems in the regiment in England and Canada.
4. A Call to Arms (2002): back in India, an independent excursion on the borders of Burma.
5. The Sabre's Edge (2003): set in the First Burmese War in 1824, and the siege of Bhurtpore in 1826.
6. Rumours of War (2004): Hervey in Portugal in 1826, with flashbacks to the Peninsular War.

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