The Books
“All Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is for ever.”
Napoleon Bonaparte
The Three Men in a War series
Glory Beckons and Fleeting Glory.
A pair of epic novels that span the Napoleonic Wars, ambitiously researched and based on true accounts.
Glory Beckons by Jean Baveystock
“Fans of Rifleman Sharpe will love this story of three criss-crossing lives in the Napoleonic Wars. Non-stop action from cover to cover.”
Major General Julian Thompson
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The first in the Three Men in A War series begins with the coronation of Napoleon and his preparations to invade England, then criss-crosses Europe from Russia to the Peninsula.
Michel Ney is a Marshal of France, with a fiery mistress who will follow him across battlefields; dedicated to his men, his country and his own legend, he is haunted by a secret that could destroy his master, Napoleon.
Sir Robert Wilson is a resourceful and sharp-elbowed British officer, driven by his loathing of Bonaparte and determined to win everlasting fame by killing him. A prolific writer.
Michael Bruce is a disgraced Etonian playboy, young and amoral, and England’s most reluctant army recruit.
As the unstoppable Grande Armée rampages across Europe these three very different men cross paths time and again in the battlefields, boudoirs and bedchambers of the Napoleonic Wars. Fighting, carousing and arguing from Paris to Moscow, London to Lisbon, Stockholm to Salamanca.
From the moment Bonaparte crowns himself Emperor of the French to the brink of the invasion of Russia, Glory Beckons is an epic tale of soldiering and seduction. The fate of a continent is at stake, as well as love, honour, life and death, but above all Glory. All dictated by the insatiable ambition, iconoclasm and ego of Napoleon Bonaparte.
Fleeting Glory by Jean Baveystock
The epic sequel to Glory Beckons, part two of the Three Men In A War series, follows Ney, Wilson and Bruce from the invasion of Russia to the aftermath of the Hundred Days.
Out Spring 2026