Allan Mallinson

Brigadier Allan Lawrence Mallinson (born 6 February 1949) is an English author and retired British Army officer.

Mallinson is best known for writing a series of novels chronicling the (fictional) life of Matthew Hervey, an officer serving in the (fictional) British 6th Light Dragoons from the late Napoleonic Wars through subsequent colonial conflicts in India, North America and South Africa. Provided by Wikipedia