A SHRED OF HONOUR is a wonderful epic of 18th cntury warfare by land and sea a first novel introducing George Markham, Lieutenant of Marines on His BritannicMajesty's frigate Hebe. Irishman, papist, reputed coward; he is a man with something to prove. as the winter of 1793 comes to the Mediterranean coast of France, so too does the chill wind of the Revolutionary terror. When the Hebe is sent to help the Bourbon city of Toulon, markham will have to prove he is a worthy officer of marines ...or die in the attempt.