Summary: Follow Me to Glory by Will Hutchison. Will Hutchison is an award-winning author whose new novel is set during the Crimean War. He is a graduate of Syracuse University, with twenty-six years as an officer in the US Army and Marine Corps. He has spent his life in interesting and often dangerous endeavors, from leading Marines in Vietnam, to working as an undercover drug agent in Amsterdam with military CID, to serving as a Federal special agent conducting fraud investigations and counter-terrorism initiatives at nuclear plants. He resides in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, where he pursues his writing and photography, with occasional law enforcement consulting projects. As an avocation, he has written and lectured on nineteenth century military history internationally for over twenty years. Here is one of those rare novels that completely transports the reader to an unforgettable time and place in history. Follow Me to Glory is the story of a young Scottish nobleman growing to manhood in Victorian Britain, and his journey to becoming a warrior and a leader. In the fall of 1854, one of the bitterest and most mismanaged campaigns in military history is about to begin. The attention of Britain is focused on the Crimea, where victory will be won or lost. Captain Ian Carlyle, magnetic, professional and audacious, prepares to lead his elite guardsmen into harm s way against the brutal Russians. You will live it with him as he comes to terms with the chaos of war and appalling truth about courage, duty, and the terrible price of glory. In the end, as Ian emerges a veteran of many engagements, he discovers that it isn t about glory only kinship, an intense commitment to those in your charge, and plain, simple survival.
