RIFLEMEN OF WELLINGTONS LIGHT DIVSION IN THE PENINSULAR WARUnpublished or Rare Accounts from the 95th Rifles 1808-14

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Editorial: Frontline Books, 2023

1399087428 / 9781399087421

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Hardback 235 pages + plate section in colourPublished Price £25 Few regiments in Wellington's Peninsular army rivalled the 95th Rifles in reputation or distinctiveness. Trained to operate with marked independence and to select individual targets, Riflemen diverged sharply from the red-coated Line; this ethos encouraged a literate culture among some officers and men, producing celebrated memoirs by Harry Smith, Johnny Kincaid, Harris and Costello. Yet many of these accounts were composed years after the campaigns, often remodelled for Victorian tastes and shaped by contemporary moral constraints.Gareth Glover's prolonged archival research brings to light contemporaneous and hitherto unpublished testimony by members of the 95th and staff of the Light Division. These primary sources record the unvarnished realities of service in Spain and Portugal-the suffering, awkward incidents, rumours and camp gossip-and elucidate the division's command and organisation. Taken together, they complicate the familiar, romanticised narrative and furnish a more accurate, nuanced portrait of the Rifles' experience in the Peninsular War.…

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RIFLEMEN OF WELLINGTONS LIGHT DIVSION IN THE PENINSULAR WARUnpublished or Rare Accounts from the 95th Rifles 1808-14
Autor
Gareth Glover
Editorial
Frontline Books
Año de publicación
2023
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New
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Book
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Idioma
inglés
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1399087428
ISBN 13
9781399087421
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Military Biography, Napoleonic Wars

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