Solid WW1 actioner
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Here the prolific author turns his focus to his Blackwood saga and the Gallipoli aspect of the Dardanelles Campaign followed by action at Flanders. The Blackwood saga (which covers a number of generations of the Royal Marines) allows a slight diversion from navel warfare to a bit of land based action. In The Horizon the horror and incompetence of the Gallipoli campaign is well described although the bravery and loss of the ANZACs could have been more detailed. It was a time of poor leadership and ill considered strategy and this comes over well and Reeman avoids the usual obvious bad guy characters. Blackwood, for much of this, feels more like an observer then a participant although he is shown as being a good and thoughtful officer but then we see him trying to cope with loss and the family reputation and it gets more interesting.
This is very easy reading, it ticks all the boxes of action and history and sits very well with the other books the author has turned out, although it is interesting how his style changes as the years of writing have gone by. This is not a novel that will stay with you for long but will still give you an entertaining couple of hours.
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