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WELLINGTONS MEN by W.H. Fitchett
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978-1-934757-74-1
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978-1-934757-74-1 |
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Wellington's Peninsula Campaign as told by
four soldiers who lived through it:
John Kincaid - Adventures in the
Rifle Brigade
Benjamin
Harris - Rifleman Harris
James
Anton - Military Life
Cavalie
Mercer - Waterloo
Wellington’s Men
is perhaps best summarized by the words of the author in the opening
sentence of the book.
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“This volume is an attempt to rescue from undeserved oblivion a
cluster of soldierly autobiographies; and to give to the general reader
some pictures of famous battles, not as described by the historian or
analysed by the philosopher, but as seen by the eyes of men who fought
in them.”
Fitchett
attempts that rescue with a brilliant rendering and analysis of parts
of four biographies—written by two junior officers, a sergeant, and a
private soldier. Each of these men were eye-witnesses to the
major events of Wellington's Peninsula Campaign, and write about both
what they saw, and what they thought about what they saw. They
are the “...actual human documents, with the salt of truth, of
sincerity, and of reality in every syllable.”
Each of these
books is presented and discussed by one of the finest historians of his
day.
William Henry Fitchett
Wellington’s Men
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