Kings and Emperors is the 21st novel in the Alan Lewrie series by author Dewey Lambdin.
The ship Alan Lewrie, Chief of the Royal Navy, was still at Gibraltar, his plan of attack along the southern coast of Spain stalled. He is tasked with commanding a group that develops protective harbors in the Gulf while his ship, HMS Sapphire, from perches on a duffel! Until Napoleon Bonaparte’s invasion of peaceful Portugal and his so-called cooperative march into Spain changed everything, freeing Sapphire once more to roam against the enemy. of the king!
When the kings were overthrown and popular uprisings broke out throughout Spain. Lewrie immediately got back into action, transporting weapons to arm the Spanish patriots, scouting within close range of the impenetrable fortress of Ceuta, guarding the army’s vanguard units. British expeditionary team to support the Spanish, and even went ashore to witness the first battle between Sir Arthur Wellesley. Here are the dukes of Wellington, and Napoleon’s most elite regimes, as the protracted Peninsular War that broke the French Empire began to unfold.
From Cádiz to La Coruña, Lewrie and Sapphire will be there when history explodes!
Some of the others reviewing here are, I think, missing the point. I’m getting older, Dewey Lambden is getting older, you’re getting older and Alan Lewrie is getting older. He’s forty-five and like most of us once we reach that age, he is realizing that the exciting stuff, the great victories, conquests and accomplishments are largely behind him.
Alan Lewrie is coming to grips with his own mortality and is finally accepting the simple fact that we have to let the young people run the world. That of course isn’t to say he’s completely spent and has nothing more to offer, and he doesn’t disappoint in Kings and Emperors! He can still get into the muck and mix it up a bit, he still takes every opportunity to show the French, the Spanish and British army officers just what sort of mayhem a man-o’-war can inflict, he still knows how to treat the ladies in and out of the bed chamber and he can hold his own with admirals, army officers and the men he leads and respects who sail and fight His Majesty’s fighting ships!
I don’t like to go into plot details when I write reviews and I won’t do so here. Suffice it to say that the story line, like all his previous adventures, moves along at a fine pace, is loaded with good humor and offers up more than enough action to satisfy long time fans like me and the casual new reader just picking up one of his adventures for the first time.
This story is a lot more nostalgic than past books were, but I’ve noticed this in all the books covering the time perios after Nelson died at Trafalgar. It is pretty clear to everyone that while the navy, British and French, still fills a vital role, the war has become largely a land battle and it is now up to the armies of Europe to settle matters once and for all.
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