'As far as the eye can see, scarlet men are marching . . . A rich and splendid company, but none more so than the drummer boy.'
But a moment later, the sound of Charlie Samson's drum was swallowed in a wild thunder. The glorious scarlet troops had been ambushed. Men were dead and dying all around, and all the beauty was gone. All that was left was himself and his drum, and a few shady nightwalkers - cowards who came crawling from the ditches and knaves who scoured the dead for wealth . . .
- ISBN10 1782950583
- ISBN13 9781782950585
- Publish Date 2 July 2015 (first published 23 March 1970)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Penguin Random House Children's UK
- Imprint Red Fox Classics
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 192
- Language English
- URL https://penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/isbn/9781782950585