Cloaked in Bravery: A True Love Story, A Rescue Mission Like No Other
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Publishing Details
Cloaked in Bravery: A True Love Story, A Rescue Mission Like No Other
By (Author) Tony Matthews
Big Sky Publishing
Big Sky Publishing
18th October 2023
Australia
Classifications
Non Fiction
True war and combat stories
History
Military history
Ancient warfare
Early modern warfare (including gunpowder warfare)
Modern warfare
Medieval warfare (predating gunpowder warfare)
Physical Properties
Paperback
254
Width 153mm, Height 230mm
Description
For Love, War & Plunder
The true story of Christian Davies who went to war dressed as a man in search of her missing husband.
There could never be any barriers to Christians love. She gave up everything to follow her man into battle in a desperate attempt to rescue him from the death that inevitably beckoned.
She gave up her comfortable life, her family, even her children, to find the man who was her only true love, and she did this without any thought for her own safety knowing that she would soon be deeply embroiled in the bloodiest battles ever fought in European history.
Disguised as a common foot-soldier, Christian Davies was a woman of great passion. She loved and fought with every fibre of her body to ensure that both she and her husband should survive the musket-fire, the swords and the cannonballs of two brutal wars. And she did all this with rollicking good humour, captivating charm and steely-eyed determination.
Courageous to a fault, Christian was no ordinary woman. Seriously wounded on several occasions, she suffered terribly but managed to survive. She fought with the strength of a man and loved with the passion of a woman. She was selfless and unfailingly brave under fire, often going to the aid of others who were wounded on the field while completely ignoring the terrifying danger to herself.
This is the compelling true story of one of the most amazing women in military history. It will make you laugh. It will make you cry, but most of all, you will fall completely in love with Christian Davies
Author Bio
Tony Matthews is a Welsh-Australian author and historian who had dedicated almost his entire adult life to writing Australian and world history. He writes extensively on military and espionage history with a specific emphasis on both world wars. He is the author of more than thirty books including several historical novels.
