The White Cockade

by Alexander Cordell

A seventeen-year-old youth accepts a dangerous role with the revolutionary forces struggling to free Ireland from British control.

Genres: Historical Fiction

138 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1970

About the author

Anglo-Welsh writer born to an army family in what was then Ceylon.

After retiring from the army he adopted Wales as home and began to write of the country and its history. His first, and best-known novel, the Rape of the Fair Country (first in the Mortymer Trilogy) was a million selling best-seller in its day.

Reviews

[Kate Hardy · Rating 3 out of 5]

I was recommended this book by my grandfather and he provided me with the full series to read.

I found this to be a short but interesting story to read. The plot was very a to b to c, and while normally I would say this detracts from the plot for such a short story it makes sense that the plot would be just the basics.

I think my favourite part of reading this novel was looking up the different people that appear and seeing who was real and what their story was outside of the novel.

The characters were good, speaking for the characters that were made up for the sake of the story.

Overall it was short and straight to the point and I look forward to reading the next two books.

[ezekiel · Rating 4 out of 5]

it was good :)