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First UK edition. Price still on dustjacket. The fourth Fancy Jack Crossman novel. “After the Battle of Inkerman on 5 November 1854, the British Army in the Crimea faces a terrible winter with hopelessly inadequate provisions and clothing. In this grim season Sergeant Jack Crossman and his usual band of grumblers and stalwarts are billeted at Kadikoi village near Balaclava harbour, with instructions to blow up the magazine in the Russian Star Fort. Yet it transpires this is not to be Crossman’s main mission…” IN STOCK FOR IMMEDIATE DESPATCH