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The Riflemen of Wellington's Light Division: Unpublished & Rare Memoirs of the 95th Rifles, 1808-14 - Hardcover
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No other regiment in Wellington’s Peninsular army can compare with the 95th Rifles. Even before Bernard Cornwell’s Sharpe novels and television series, the Rifles were the most famous of all the British Army’s fighting formations.Unlike the red-coated regiments of the Line, the Riflemen were trained to act with a degree of independence, selecting their own targets in battle. As a result, a number of the officers and some of the men were more literate than their counterparts in the Line, or at least were more willing to record their experiences fighting the French. Consequently, many of the finest memoirs of the era have come from the pens of the likes of Harry Smith, Johnny Kincaid and Riflemen Harris and Costello, and have found their places on the shelves of every enthusiast of the era.However, these well-known works were written years after the fighting when memories had faded and were bulked out with incidents borrowed from others and heavily edited with grand descriptions of ‘derring-do’ for their Victorian audience, and heavily constrained by the strict morals of the day. Through many years of research, Gareth Glover has uncovered other memories written by members of the 95th which have never been published before or have not been brought to the attention of the present-day public, that were written at the time. These honestly state what really happened on the battlefields of Spain and Portugal – the suffering, the awkward incidents, the rumors and camp gossip – presenting a very different picture of life in Wellington’s army than the sanitized versions we have been presented with until now.Also included are rare or unpublished memoirs written by members of the staff of the Light Division, enabling the reader to understand the division’s command structure and organization to provide a rounded and realistic vision of this famous fighting force.
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Gareth Glover is a former Royal Navy officer and military historian who has made a special study of the Napoleonic Wars for the last 30 years.
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Zustand: New. 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. Book. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 32289
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