To Moscow With Bony: A Liverpool Man's Taleby Frederick McCannSelf-Published This book is written in English 
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| Style: Historical Fiction, Action/Adventure Published: 10 / 2008 Available Formats to Download: PDF 
| | STORY DESCRIPTION *This is an Alternative History Novel*
For Sergeant Henry Turner of the Forth Battalion, the Forty Seventh Regiment of Foot, 1815 should have seen an end to his war. Napoleon had been exiled to Elba, and many of the Allied soldiers had been safely returned to their home countries. As the British Treasury sought to save money, by quickly reducing the size of the army, all Henry had to look forward to, was being cast upon the streets of his native Liverpool, or if he was lucky, sent off to some far flung outpost of the ever growing British Empire.
Neither was going to happen.
In Vienna, the great powers had gathered to divide up Europe. As they did, Napoleon Bonaparte sat on Elba like a spider in his web, feeding off the breeze of discontent and greed, channeled by spies. Russia wanted all of Poland.
Prussia, allied with the Russian Czar, was willing to give up its share of Poland to get all of Saxony. Austria feared domination by a Russo-Prussian block. England had not fought for a generation to replace a French hegemony in Europe with a Russian one. In the squabbles what should have been a peace conference to end two decades of war with France became a shouting match between two power blocks with Austria-England-France as the other side. With the war clouds once again threatening the fragile peace, Bonaparte seized his chance and dispatched a letter to King George of England, offering his services as General Bonaparte, soldier of fortune. He offered to raise a force to serve under Wellington, if perchance, England was to go to war with either Prussia or Russia.
Soon Henry would find himself fighting along side former enemies against former friends, and once more Napoleon would be marching towards Moscow. Only this time, Henry and the British army would be marching with him
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"Why, he`s the Lone Scouser"
I was born on the 28th August 1946 in Walton Hospital, and like many other children born that year, was the result to the war in Europe ending. Then for the first few days of my life lived (because the hospital was there) in Liverpool, thus making me a Scouser. However, if I had been born in Bootle Hospital, I would have been a Bootle Buck. Still, by the time I was seven days old, had crossed the border on Breeze Hill and would stay in Bootle for the next 23 years. I had a happy childhood, apart from the fact my late father climbed inside a bottle, and for most of the next ten years, only coming out to father another two children. For the first five years of my life, we all lived in my grandparents house. A large multi floored house, on the top of Breeze Hill, with fantastic views out across Liverpool Bay. The Mersey then, was like the M6 (The major North-south Interstate in the UK for our American readers) today, with ships coming and going by the dozen on each tide.
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